10
Morris · on record 1994 to 2025
The Morris Ten name covered several small family cars before and just after the Second World War, using conventional front engine rear wheel drive engineering and practical saloon bodies. It occupied an important middle ground between tiny economy cars and larger family models. Exact generation depends on date, but surviving examples are now historic vehicles whose continued use relies on clubs, simple mechanicals and owners interested in prewar and early postwar motoring.
GROWING
Red List classification, from population, five year trajectory and survival against peak. Reviewed each census.
38
licensed vehicles
2025 census
2025 census
16.6% of the peak fleet remains licensed
34
declared SORN
total surviving
peak 229 in 1994 · +0 vehicles a year, five year trend
Population history
Licensed and SORN vehicles at each census. The filters below apply to the family population, MOT and registration figures. They do not alter the generation history above.
Licensed
SORN
Latest census observation
Inside the surviving fleet
AutoCensus parses every DVLA variant description, so the fleet can be read by fuel and specification rather than as one number.
First registrations by year
When surviving examples first joined the British fleet.
New registrations
Vehicles first registered each year. A fleet still being sold shows here; a finished one shows only imports.
MOT reliability
DVSA test results for this family, 2005 to 2025.
Pass rate by year
| Failure reason | Failures | Share of all tests |
|---|---|---|
| An obligatory lamp inoperative or less than 50% of the light sources illuminating | 8 | 2.3% |
| An obligatory headlamp inoperative, excessively damaged or deteriorated or has a product on the lens or light source so that the light output is well below that required to illuminate the road ahead | 7 | 2.0% |
| Excessive play in king pin and/or bush such that it is likely to adversely affect the steering of the vehicle | 5 | 1.5% |
| An excessively worn shock absorber linkage, pivot or bush | 4 | 1.2% |
| Little or no braking effort is recorded from the brake on any wheel, indicating clearly that the brake is not functioning correctly | 4 | 1.2% |
| Excessive play in a ball joint | 4 | 1.2% |
| An obligatory headlamp inoperative, excessively damaged or deteriorated or has a product on the lens or light source so that the light output is well below that required to illuminate the road ahead | 3 | 0.9% |
| The calculated out-of-balance of the brakes across an axle is greater than 30% | 3 | 0.9% |
Counted across every recorded test, 2005 to 2025. Advisories are excluded.
Where the 10 remains
Based on MOT test locations, 2025. Test location is a proxy: a vehicle is counted where it was last tested, not where it is kept.
| Postcode area | Vehicles tested | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| PR | 1 | 100% |
| CW | 1 | 100% |
How this record was calculated
LATEST CENSUS2025
POPULATION SOURCEDVLA VEH0220 annual
HISTORY SOURCEDVLA VEH0120 GB · to 2013
MOT SOURCEDVSA results · to 2025
FAMILY DEFINITIONMORRIS 10
PROCESSED20 Sep 2026
Full methodology
Population history combines DVLA VEH0120 Q4 census observations through 2013 with the annual VEH0220 census from 2014 onward. Figures before 2014 cover Great Britain only. Historical VEH0120 is used only when its overlapping UK observations reconcile to the current canonical family definition. Vehicles are grouped into this family using the DVLA GenModel together with durable routing rules for known inconsistencies.
Variant figures are parsed from raw DVLA model descriptions and the original string is always retained. Configuration is only assigned where the model description explicitly identifies it; a blank configuration is not treated as a two door Wrangler. Blank transmission fields are shown as manual because DVLA records the field for automatic vehicles.
MOT figures count tests, not vehicles, and geographic figures count each vehicle at its most recent test location. The decline projection is a straight line fitted to the latest five years and is illustrative only.