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One man who played a very important part in the history of Oxford was William Morris. Morris lived in Oxford when he was a child and his first job, when he was fourteen, was mending bicycles. He also enjoyed racing them in his free time. Then, in 1893, Morris started buying bicycle parts and making the machines himself. He opened a shop in the city center to sell them. He liked cars too, and he made his first car in 1913. Later he opened a car factory in Cowley, in the southeast of Oxford. In the first year, he built nearly four hundred Morris Oxfords. The business got bigger and bigger, and by the end of the 1920s, Morris was building 100,000 cars a year. By 1938, 10,000 people worked in the factories. In the 1920s Morris decided to change from wood and metal to steel for his cars. He had talks with an American steel company, and they also started a business in Oxford. After the Second World War, Morris's company joined with others and changed its name a number of times. The Morris Minor, the little Mini, and many other famous cars came from the Cowley factory. In the early 1970s, more than 26,000 people worked in the city's car industry, making thousands of cars each week. Cars are still made in Oxford under the name of Rover. The business is not as important to Oxford as before, but in his time William Morris helped to make Oxford a modern city.