The Lighthouse in Oxford the railway station at Frideswide Square gradually eroded away much of the canal trade. In 1913 William Morris (later Lord Nuffield), without licence, started his own bus service to compete with the city's cumbersome tram network. In 1951, Lord Nuffield further forced change when he acquired the Oxford Canal Basin and proceeded to fill it. Nuffield College and Worcester Street car park now stand where once lay the Basin. This was the death knell of the canal system as a competitive mode of transport in Oxford as technology replaced human labour. An apt example can be found in the reconstruction
Oxford Business Park Oxford Business Park The Oxford Business Park is a business park of at Cowley on the eastern edge of Oxford, England. The park is immediately adjacent to the Oxford Ring Road. The park was developed on the site of Oxford Military College from 1876-1896, later the original Morris Motors factory, sold in 1992 by British Leyland to the property group Arlington Securities. Arlington was itself sold to the Australian property company Macquarie Goodman, now the Goodman Group, in 2005. Major tenants include Wiley-Blackwell, Harley-Davidson, Oxfam, Royal Mail and HM Revenue and Customs. There is also a hotel on the site.