Morris Garages’ Longwall Oxford workshop had only simple machine tools, no space for production and made only one MG, Old Number One. This was not the first-ever MG, in 1922-1923 they were mostly highly coloured fancy-finished Morrises. I found it surprisingly lively when drove it at Gaydon’s British Motor Museum researching material for MG Classics.
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The best MG for picnicking with the dog was probably the post 1931 Magna. At the time Cecil Kimber’s ambitions to challenge Bentley were flagging. The big 18/80 wasn’t selling and in only its second year the Midget was still a bit of a gamble. Kimber had to find something in between and Morris Engines was making a dinky little 6-cylinder for Wolseley that he could squeeze into a Midget. He didn’t much like the connection with staid old Wolseley so the cylinder dimensions were faked and steel plates fixed on the crankcase to cover it up.
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