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Carpeats And Door Seals
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Morris De-Luxe cars had carpets that originally came in three colours..Chassis number 101 – 8996 Dark Grey (so dropped in late November 1959) Chassis number 101> Cherry Red Chassis number 101> Blue In both RHD & LHD Austin De-Luxe had the same three colours listed but a different part number. Listed as:- Red up to chassis 10548 In both LHD & RHD |
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| Basic (or Standard) cars had rubber mats not carpet in this block style up until chassis number 49063 in LHD & RHD types with a single heel mat for the driver. | 59 style rear Basic Mat. |
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| 1959 Morris de-luxe had this ‘chocolate box’ style heal mat. | Morris De-Luxe also had a small rubber toe mat on the inner wheel arch. |
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| 1959 de-luxe Austins had this style of heel mat. | De-luxe cars had a full length rubber boot mat. Basic cars did without a mat. |
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| Nearly all 59’s used a door rubber and cloth seal which in the parts list was named “Grey fleck”, and was a kind of imitation cloth made in vinyl with glued on rubber. Very rare now and seldom seen. But very early cars and the last Austin de-luxe’s had a real cloth-covered door rubber seal in different colours. Also rare, but probably the same was used on Riley Elfs and Wolseley Hornets | An alloy door seal strip was fitted to all de-luxe cars. It was not fitted to basic cars. |
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| All 59 mini’s had the same steering wheel with a different horn push in the centre. This is an Austin wheel. | A Morris horn push. |
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Some 1959 cars have a cream indicator lens. Others have a green lens. |
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