 Originally it produced technical publications for BMC, and later the wider remit of British Leyland's entire product range (as well as its successor companies Austin Rover Group and Rover Group), but also for external clients.The Nuffield Press Limited was placed into Administration on 27 June 2011.The company had been founded in 1925 by William Morris, later Lord Nuffield, as The Morris Oxford Press, at the former military college in Cowley to produce the periodical "Morris Owner".