MG Midgets In Detail
M-Type to TF, 1929-1955
Published on 28. November 2024
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-914929-11-3 (ISBN)
Description
When the first
MG Midget appeared at the 1928 London Motor Show few would have thought that it
would be the car to save the recently established marque from closure, a fate
that affected many others during the depression that followed the 1929 Wall
Street Crash. Sales previously had been of relatively expensive cars to the
wealthy and the other new MG on display, the 18/80 was even more costly. Right
from the start, sales of the M-type Midget looked promising and soon eclipsed
those of the larger MGs. These and those that followed dominated the sports car
market in the 1930s and post-war, when a large proportion of the output from
the Abingdon MG factory was exported.
This book gives
details of each model, with a technical description, competition history and
special bodied versions listed, all backed up by photographs, both period and
more recent.
MG Midget appeared at the 1928 London Motor Show few would have thought that it
would be the car to save the recently established marque from closure, a fate
that affected many others during the depression that followed the 1929 Wall
Street Crash. Sales previously had been of relatively expensive cars to the
wealthy and the other new MG on display, the 18/80 was even more costly. Right
from the start, sales of the M-type Midget looked promising and soon eclipsed
those of the larger MGs. These and those that followed dominated the sports car
market in the 1930s and post-war, when a large proportion of the output from
the Abingdon MG factory was exported.
This book gives
details of each model, with a technical description, competition history and
special bodied versions listed, all backed up by photographs, both period and
more recent.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Beaworthy
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Over 350 colour and black-and-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
885 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-914929-11-3 (9781914929113)
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Person
Malcolm
Green is a member of The Guild
of Motoring Writers and of The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. He
is well qualified to write about the MG Midgets, having owned and restored a
number since buying his first in 1962. He subsequently met many of those involved
with the early days of the marque. For over thirty years Malcolm contributed
articles on MGs and other British sports cars to magazines like MG Enthusiast,
Enjoying MG, The Automobile and The MG Magazine in America. Books he has had
published are MG Sports Cars - an illustrated history of the world-famous
sporting marque, MG T-series Restoration Guide, MGA Restoration Guide, MG Road
Cars volumes 1 and 2, MG Britain's Favourite Sports Car, MG Sports Cars
1929-1936 OHC Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes and with Graham Robson co-authored
MGC - Abingdon's Grand Tourer. In 2020 he wrote The MG Story 1923-1980 also
published by Herridge & Sons.
Green is a member of The Guild
of Motoring Writers and of The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. He
is well qualified to write about the MG Midgets, having owned and restored a
number since buying his first in 1962. He subsequently met many of those involved
with the early days of the marque. For over thirty years Malcolm contributed
articles on MGs and other British sports cars to magazines like MG Enthusiast,
Enjoying MG, The Automobile and The MG Magazine in America. Books he has had
published are MG Sports Cars - an illustrated history of the world-famous
sporting marque, MG T-series Restoration Guide, MGA Restoration Guide, MG Road
Cars volumes 1 and 2, MG Britain's Favourite Sports Car, MG Sports Cars
1929-1936 OHC Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes and with Graham Robson co-authored
MGC - Abingdon's Grand Tourer. In 2020 he wrote The MG Story 1923-1980 also
published by Herridge & Sons.