Nuffield Press

[2] As a result, in August 1925, the Morris Oxford Press was started in the buildings recently vacated by the manufacturing operation.

[2] The Morris Owner magazine was a cornerstone of production, reaching a monthly print run of 20,000 copies,[2] and this was supplemented by handbooks, repair manuals, stationery, labels, and factory paperwork.

[2] It produced technical publications for BMC, and later the wider remit of British Leyland's entire product range.

During the 1960s, the Special Products division acquired the Lyne and Sons printers in Grantham,[17] which was later merged into the Nuffield Press.

[18] By 1977, the press employed 300 people at the Cowley site,[19] had sales in excess of £3m,[18] and was producing a wide range of products including full-colour printing of items like calendars.

[20] The Lyne Printers division in Grantham was divested to Suter plc,[21] owned by David Abell,[22] former Managing Director of SP Industries and later of BL Commercial Vehicles.

[27] Following the collapse of the Maxwell Group in early 1992, there was major restructuring with a sale to Reed Elsevier, who formed a new company (initially as Coleslaw 210 Ltd, before renaming as Nuffield Press Limited).

[29] In 1994, then owner British Aerospace sold the Rover Group to BMW and, after 69 years, the press left the now BMW-owned Cowley site, and relocated to Nuffield Way, Abingdon.

[31] The Nuffield Press Limited was placed into administration on 27 June 2011,[32] with the loss of 53 jobs (and 14 kept on pending any potential buyer).

[3] It was reported that the company had been in talks with Maurice Payne Colourprint, another struggling printer, but with no deal concluded, both went into administration in the same month.

1927 edition of the Morris Owner magazine, the original publication of the Morris Oxford Press, later the Nuffield Press