Description
Author: Graham Robson, Softbound, 192 Pages, ISBN: 9781861269096, 2014 Printing of 1988 Original
- Background to T-Series design and development - Profiles of key personalities - Record breaking, racing and trials - Detailed specification for each model - Production numbers - The T-Series today
In the 1930s MG made sports-car motoring available to thousands with its famous overhead-camshaft Midgets. Introduced in 1936, the T-Series carried the process forward another stage with a slightly larger and simpler car that would become a bestseller in the United Kingdom and, after the War, a huge hit in the USA.
There was still a T-Series Midget in the MG range almost twenty years later, and in that time the cars became classics in the truest sense.
This book tells the full story of Abingdon's OHV Midgets from the birth of the TA after the takeover of MG by Morris Motors, to the last TF of 1955, and also the Naylor and Hudson replica TFs made since 1984.
Including details of design, development, technical specifications and guidance for those thinking about buying a T-Series today, this is atook for everyone interested in these charismatic cars.
As always, I couldn't possibly have completed this book without the help of many friends, colleagues and MG enthusiasts. Over the years that I have been writing about cars, and about MGs, many people in what we now call the Rover Group have helped me, with facts, figures, advice, and support. Nowadays, at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust at Gaydon, Anders Clausager (Archivist) and his colleagues have been a continuing source of historic material and statistics.
More recently, I was helped by other MG enthusiasts, including Malcolm Green of Magna Press, David Knowles and Peter Browning. Last, but by no means least, an interview with Jack Daniels, whose design career began at MG in the 1920s, was fascinating, and informative.
Without them, it simply couldn't have been done.
Author, Graham Robson
