The British product was popular with kids. I did not dare ask my parents for one. It fell a victim to the blanket import ban that followed the 1952 bankruptcy. Forward 1982 and I finally treated myself to one, risking Manhattan traffic to ride to work: parking was at a premium and I heard a nun say you are strange when I gifted it to her ghetto school. My brother arrived three months later at US college, and my toy was gone weeks later. He was the envy of Indian students on campus. I saw a original Brit made Morris Oxford in Goa, ten years ago. Hindustan Motors bought the rights to the model and renamed it the Ambassador. A business rents restored models to movie producers who need the period looks and in recent months I was very happy to see the ones we enjoyed in pre-socialist times : Austins, Morris Mini and Vauxhall.
