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Vital to the Life of the Nation
2nd Hand book, hardback, good condition, first edition 1946
This first edition, while giving a broad picture of the Industry’s development will, it is felt, provide the basis for the future literature concerning and Industry which is destined to take an increasingly important part in the Nation’s trade at home and overseas.
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MGCC 95th Anniversary Car Badge
The MGCC 95th Anniversary grille badge!
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MG Ladies Polo Shirt
Modern multicolor blue Polo with worked contrast details. This polo is made in 100% ring spun cotton with 3 buttons, woven fabrics at collar stand and placket piping. The polo also features slits on side, half-moon and reinforced neck tape. The garment is pre-shrunk and enzyme treated. Embroidered with the MG Logo.
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MG Made in Abingdon
Here, from the memories of many men and women, is an intimate account of what it was like to work in MG’s Abingdon factory.
From tea trolley to production line and from apprentice to manager, this book includes memorable events, romance, tragedy, humour, motorsport, and the lead up to factory closure.
MG was a home-grown concept that became an international success, bringing the small market town of Abingdon onto the global map. MG – Made in Abingdon recounts the inside story of the famous factory, recognising that the most important aspect of MG’s success was its team – the tea-boys and girls, the shop floor workers, the engineers and racers, the apprentices and management. From memories of the production line to recollections of racing incidents, the untold story of MG from the men and women who worked in the Abingdon factory is revealed for the first time in a book that is both nostalgic and historically important.
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MG Badge T-shirt
Bottle green T-shirt with all the MG logo’s through the years
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Ladies V-neck cotton jumper
A Fresh Green Ladies V-neck quality jumper – embroidered with the MG Car Club LogoMaterial: 60% cotton, 40% polyester, 280 g/m². 12 gg, 2 ply.Weight: 12 gauge, 280 g/m²Neckline: V-neck -
MG ZT Workshop Manual
Essential workshop manual covering the MG ZT from 2001 to 2005. Please note this manual does not cover the V8 ZT 260.
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Spark MG Lola LM 2002 #30
Scale: 1:43
Make: Spark
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Spark MG Lola Sebring ’03 #37
Scale: 1:43
Make: Spark
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Small MG Car Club Grille Badge
Small MG Car Club grille badge, ideal for use on the more modern cars, such as MGF, TF, Zeds and current MG3, 6 and GS.
Supplied complete with screws and fixings.
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VIP Parking Only Sign
Let your friends and family know that only the most important cars can be parked
outside your home or garage with this novelty ‘VIP Parking Only Sign’.
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THE MGA
This book is the definitive study, for the author has gone back to factory records and to the people who worked on the car in the ‘fifties, to find out how it was conceived, manufactured and marketed. Here is the real story of the MGA’s engineering, body styling and every aspect of the car’s development and production – including MG’s strategy to beat its competitors.In seven years of production, there were major successes and sad disappointments. The MGA was the car that was “right first time” and though the Twin Cam variant was a nightmare for the factory, it is now the most sought after model.This book tells how the sleepy Thames-side village of Abingdon became a mass-production centre for the MGA, how the MGA became one of America’s best-loved sports cars and how the MGA has become one of today’s classic cars, cherished by enthusiastic owners all over the world.
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SVW SA Service Parts List
This is an excellent replica of the original. It is the same size as the original and the images are much finer than can be achieved by photocopying. the original parts lists published by MG.
Both were published in 1946, so contain all the modifications made during the manufacturing life of the cars.
They contain some 75 pages, giving part numbers and illustrations of main parts.
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Vehicle Document Folder
MG Car Club vehicle document folder with tab dividers, for Registration docs, Miscellaneous, MOT Cert, Insurance docs, Service history, Photos, receipts, magazine articles, events and general. Comes with 2 plastic pockets.
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MGCC Slipover
100% cotton black unisex slipover, with the MG Car Club logo embroidered
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Harry Lester his cars & The Monkey Stable
Garage owner and expert tuner of MG cars, Harry Lester was one of the more successful sports car competitors in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1949 he designed and built his own car, with a rigid tubular chassis, lightweight aluminium body and utilising the favoured engine of many club racers of the time, the XPAG unit from the MGTC. So successful was the car in his hands that a trio of wealthy young amateur racers decided to form a team and commissioned him to build them a car each, plus a spare. They called themselves “The Monkey Stable” and enjoyed much success in their first year, 1952, a highlight being winning the team prize at the first 9 hours race at Goodwood. In subsequent years their fortunes changed, as did their cars, going to Kieft MGs in 1953,then back to Lesters in 1955. In the interim, the Monkey Stable drivers twice drove for the Bristol team at Le Mans, and one of their number, Pat Griffith, briefly became a works driver for Aston Martin, partnering Peter Collins in a number of long-distance events. It all ended in tragedy, however, when team founder Jim Mayers was killed at Dundrod in the 1955 TT race, only weeks after another team member, Mike Keen, had crashed fatally at Goodwood. Never before published in its entirety, this is the story of Harry Lester and his cars, together with the exploits of The Monkey Stable during their brief but significant racing career.
The story is told by Stewart Penfound, MG enthusiast and owner of one of the last of the Lester MGs made. Containing much previously unseen material from both Harry Lester’s and The Monkey Stable’s archives it is a story as much about the characters as the cars and is a significant addition to the record of motor racing immediately after the end of the Second World War.
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MG by McComb
Not only is this book the definitive work because Wilson McComb was on the inside at MG for a decade, it is doubly so because the author knew exactly how a complex story such as this should be researched and told. Osprey are proud to have employed the talents of a comparable expert.. From Cecil Kimber and the Bullnose MGs of the 1920s, to the thirties Midgets, the Magnettes, the TCs, the MGA, MGB, even the Metro and Maestro, every twist in the tale was followed by Wilson McComb, with an intimate knowledge not only of machinery but also of men, those who created the marque, some who abused it. There are not many more interesting automotive stories than that of the Octagon to be told, and MG will be one of the few British marques to make it into the 21st century.
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MGCC Umbrella
British Racing Green Golf umbrella with the MG Car Club Logo.
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The Magic of MG
When Cecil Kimber began tuning and modifying Morris cars in the early ‘twenties, he little realised that these embryonic M.G. Cars would establish a name which, in the course of time, was to be¬come that of Britain’s best known sports-car. Mike Allison, a keen M.G. Enthu¬siast, very involved in the M.G. Car Club and at one time working at Abingdon, traces the history of M.G. Cars, with the use of around 400 photographs, from the early days of the Bullnose MG, 14/40, 18/80, 18/100, through the triple M cars (Midgets, Magna and Magnette models of the 1930’s), the pre war comfort models VA, SA and WA, and the immortal T series cars. Then he moves onto postwar production of the Y Types, ZA and ZB range, 1100, 1300 and finally the A, B, C model ranges. The achievements in competition do not go unrecorded, with a selection of illustrations showing cars in events, such as the pre war Mile Miglia, and record breaking cars such as EX181. Photographs of all the models and most of the specialist coach¬work show the interesting de¬velopment of a marque that has won the hearts of many a man.
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MG Car Club Polo Shirt
Our MG Car club Polo shirt – Navy with Silver Grey embroidery
Available in: S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL
