The Morris Ten Series M brochure price in 1946 was only £347 - 10s.

But what did other things cost in 1946?
Below are some examples of what money could buy in 1946

The average skilled male wage was £381-00 per year = £7-2s-8d which is £7.13 per week in todays money.

Unskilled workers recieved about £2 a week less.

The average house cost £1,400

Car Tax was £1 per horsepower
so the Morris Ten would have cost £10-00 to tax.

A TV Licence cost £2-00

Milk - 4 1/2d a pint

1 lb. Loaf of bread - 2 1/2d

A pint of beer was 1s-4d

1 dozen eggs - 2s-5d

Sugar 2 1/2d for 1lb.

Brooke Bond Divident tea was 1s-7d for 1/2 lb.

Cigarettes cost 1s-2d for 10 Craven Plain

Biro Pen - 55 shillings (£2-15s) Today = £2.75 -
so a Biro would have cost almost 2 days wages in 1946.

The Times newspaper cost 3d

Also 3d to post a letter

Remember much of the food and petrol was still rationed in 1946

10 for 1/2

20 for 2/4

Dinky Lagonda - 2/9d

Dinky Jeep - 2/6d

A vacuum cleaner cost - £9-9-0

The Murphy A104 Radiogram cost an amazing £91-13s-4d. This would have been around 3 months wages for the average worker.

Biro pen - 55/-

Refill - 5/-

Toothbrush

Bristles - 2 shillings
Nylon 1 - shilling - 6d