This motorcar was built as a two seater with dickey at Edmund Road, Oxford in the first half of 1929, there are no records of whether it was registered in the UK and later exported to New Zealand or exported as a new motorcar to New Zealand. Its chassis number is 2/6461. The first known owner was Peter Marlow in New Zealand in 1938 at some stage he dismantled the car. In 1955 Colin West brought the dismantled car and stored it under his house. He sold 'two trailer loads of bits' to Sue Naylor in 1982, she rebuilt the car as a four seater tourer. In 1989 Peter Mace brought the car from Sue and imported it to the UK. The current owner, brought the car from Peter Mace in 2003. This car is currently being rebuilt and the owner hopes that it will be on the road in early 2012.
This motorcar was built at Edmund Road, Oxford and was first registered on 18th May 1929. It has the chassis number 2/6413. There is no known history until a Log Book entry in January 1949 for Aurther Stanley Thornton of Pendine, Carmarthenshire. The present owner acquired the motorcar in 1972 in Nantgaredig near Carmarthen and there was anecdotal information that the motorcar had not been used since 1949. The motorcar was mostly complete but in a seriously damaged and dilapidated state. Stop/start restoration took half a lifetime and the motorcar was put back on the road in 2004 just in time to be displayed at M.G. Silverstone. UU 2506 is used throughout the year in the UK and Europe with an annual mileage of 2000 - 3000.
This car was first registered on 23rd June 1931. The known history of MG 1214 dates back to 1947. It was then in the ownership of Pat Tennant of Bosham Hoe, just a few miles from Chichester. In the early 50's a lengthened bonnet was fitted to expose the MG insignia on the firewall supports, the body tub was repaired with masonite (!), many tacks and nails, and hydraulic brakes with twin leading shoe fronts were fitted.
It was purchased by Peter Hague in 1980 and used extensively on trials and on the road. He had it professionally fitted with a cross flow head reputedly giving it a vast increase in power. To say this modification was crude is an understatement it required removal of one carburettor to get to number 3 sparkplug. The car was getting rather tired by the late 90's and the present owner bought it in 2001.When the present owner started the restoration he had to decide whether to restore it to the original specification. He did not know when the Mk 2 gearbox was fitted or the 18-inch wheels. As the car has been in its modified state for rather longer than its original he felt it right to leave it modified. After all this is part of the cars history. However, he did remove the crossflow head and return the engine to its original configuration but with the twin carburettors fitted with their own float chambers as in the Mk 2s, rather than the single shared chamber of the Mk 1s. Chassis number 2/6672
Chassis No 2/6546 - WL 7196 is a Mk1 18/80, which is fitted with a four-door tourer body. It was first registered in July 1929 and was supplied to Robin Salter who lived in Bognor Regis. Since then there have only been three further owners. The motor car was restored in the early 1980's by Roger Thomas, the current owner has constructed and fitted a boot as would have been fitted when new, but is still very original. The present owner has used the motor car for many long distance continental holidays and M.G. events. It has visited eleven European countries in the last ten years and the total mileage is 420,000.
This is an Edmund Road, Oxford built M.G. being chassis No 6458 and first registered on July 22, 1929. Its two seater body with dickey was manufactured by Carbodies and is numbered 7559, it was one of a batch of 23 bodies numbered 7537 to 7559, ordered by M.G. from Carbodies on March 16, 1929.
Answering to the name of Rear Admiral an acronym of its RA 9101 Derby county registration letters, the vehicle has probably completed more miles in its current ownership since February 2002, than in the previous fifty years.
The pre-war history of the vehicle is unknown, indeed like so many M.G.s of this period, there are no records extant at Kimber House. However, it had been purchased by R. Paxton, a member of the V.S.C.C., then living in Cheltenham from a vendor south of Bristol in 1951. After three years use, he then sold the M.G. to a student who left a £30 deposit and a year later, after no further payment, decided he could not afford it and returned the motor-car. Paxton kept the students deposit and subsequently sold the motorcar to Robin Howard on June 24, 1955 for £70. R. Paxton referred to and illustrated this 18/80 in the V.S.C.C. Bulletin (No 57), dated Winter 1957/8.
Robin Howard seems not to have used the motorcar very frequently, his log book records very few miles but does note a succession of problems and concerns. Certainly by the mid 1980s the M.G. was housed in a damp garage in Potters Bar and looked very sorry for it self. Some professional remedial work was carried out in the mid 1990s, but since my ownership in 2002, the vehicle has been refurbished and while it is not by any means pristine, it has provided a good-many (almost) trouble free miles during this century. Indeed, we have never failed to get home!
If by any chance anyone can shed light on the motorcars history during the 1930s and 1940s, the author would welcome contact.
This car, a fabric bodied Saloon, was registered on 12th June 1931, but the car was almost certainly built at Abingdon in 1930 and as such is accepted by the VSCC. The chassis no is 4FS/6713 and the engine number is JC11088. H Gordon Tucker of Wivelsfield Green, West Sussex purchased the car from University Motors in Park Lane, London W1. He drove the car each working day into central London for 40 years and parked in the underground car park in Marble Arch.
The Dolphin Mascot, which is still with the car, was given to him by his brother in 1931, who was stationed at HMS Dolphin. In about 1971, when the car had done 346,000 miles he sold it to Phil Jennings, the author of Early M.G. and joint author of From Oxford to Abingdon. He restored the car with a new fabric body, a new interior, a rebuilt engine and gearbox. With a recorded mileage of 356,000 miles he sold the car to Peter Mace who added about another 10,000 miles using the motorcar regularly on MGCC, EMGS and VSCC events.
The Current owner brought the car in 2009.
XV 9508 - 1928 M.G. 14/40
There is no early history of this motorcar. The earliest known owner was R Reynell of Saxmundham in Suffolk, who owned the car for 14 years. The motorcar appeared for sale at a Beaulieu auction in the 1970s but did not sell. J Stoneman of Ely brought the motorcar in 1979 selling it on to C Mallett of Saxmundham. Cyril Mellor purchased the car on the 2nd August 1987 keeping it for 16 years before selling to the present owner.
SU 2696 - 1930 18/80 M.G. Six Mk 11
This Abingdon built motorcar was completed as a 4 door metal saloon in May 1930 but not registered until 17th February 1931, when T. C. Smith and Son of Aberdeen sold it to D M Baird of Drummock, Aberdeen. The next recorded owner was Morgan Marshall in April 1949. By 1955 the car had passed to R Huntley Showering of Redland, Bristol. The motorcar stayed in the Bristol area until 2000, having passed through the following hands 1958 I V P Cross, 1959 T M Smith, 1960 Frank L Burgess then in 1969 back to Morgan Marshall and finally into the Ostler family in 1988 who removed the saloon body and replaced it with a speed model body as it is today, then it passed to Neville Pugh in November 2000. The present owner brought the motorcar on the 19th November 2008. The chassis number is A0311. From it’s registration the car has been named Sweet Sue.
