Morgan’s research shows that the wooden frame makes its cars safer than conventional steel frames on impact tests. OLI SCARFF // Getty Images. As you can see from the video above, ...

If you’re not familiar with that name, Morgan was founded in 1910 and it’s a family-owned company even to this day. Based in Malvern Link, Worcestershire and employing just over 160 people ...

Wood is not entirely gone from the car industry. However, it primarily serves a decorative function now, as opposed to some 120 years ago, when it was commonplace for the organic vegetal material ...

Morgan didn’t do away with the car’s wooden frame, opting for a hand-formed aluminum body over ash wood, in a process it calls “21st Century Coachbuilding.” ...

Toyota Launches A Wooden Car. By Bertel Schmitt, Former Contributor. Mar 04, 2016, 04:58am EST. Save Article. This article is more than 8 years old. ... To join the exterior panels with the frame, ...

The frames begin to take shape. Blake Marvin Photography. The new cars do have modern touches — today’s Morgan chassis is made from strong, lightweight aluminum instead of the traditional steel — but ...

Traditional Morgans have depended on an aluminium skin daintly stretched over an ash wood frame since the year 1543, when Henry VIII had one. Even the latest £80k Plus Six has, atop its aluminium ...