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DonB
Don Bonar
Prairie Village, KS
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Main British Car:
1971 MG-B 95 GM 3.4 V-6

Clarification of the term MG Midget
Posted by: DonB
Date: August 14, 2013 05:00AM

Clarification on "MG Midget"...

Boys, I believe most all prewar 4 cyl MGs were called Midgets. 6 cyl MGs were Magnettes and Magnas. My 1935 MG PA is a "midget" in more ways than one!

M types, and the alphabit soup of Cs, D,s, Ks, L, R types, Js and P types, NAs, NBs, pillarless saloons... lots of fun early cars and styles with both 4 and 6 cyl powerplants... several routinely fitted with blowers!

Learn more about early MGs at website for NAMMMR - North American Midget, Magnette and Magna Register. Good friend and Chairman of NAMMMR Jack Kahler lives in Colorado and will be invited to join us next year. I'll see if he will bring his 1928 M type Brooklands 12/12 racer... one of 3 in the world.
Don B.
Yes the early Ts, by definition (4 cyl) were considered Midgets, but that name just wasn't going to fly in the post war period when the American market became the dominate target. Reserected name for smaller MG as the "big" MGA, MGBs had dropped the use.


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