How very sad. For MG enthusiasts, the April '06 issue of Hemmings Sports &
Exotic Car has an excellent piece on a 1935 MG PA Airline Coupe. Lovely
car.
Bruce Steele
1960 BN7
Brea, CA
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Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:55 AM
Subject: MG Rover auctions its past (Mar 25)
> From The Car Connection this morning:
>
> MG Rover Auctions Its Past
> The vultures are circling, picking over the bones of what used to be
> Britain's last volume car manufacturer. MG Rover went to the wall last
> summer, and
> now all that remains - from the valuable to the trivial - is being split
> up.
> The Heritage Motor Centre, one of the U.K.'s most prestigious auto museums
> and based in Warwickshire, has revealed it's done a deal with Nanjing
> Automobile, the new owner of MG Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham.
> The move will
> safeguard historically important artifacts, documents, and photographs.
> HMC
> already owns a wide range of archive material - including the last
> production
> car, a Rover 75 - which tells the story of the Longbridge site from its
> beginnings in 1905. The newly rescued items will complete the historic
> record and
> form part of a special display later this year.
> Meanwhile, there's to be an auction of everything that belonged to MG
> Sport
> and Racing, the company's motorsport divisions. Taking place on March 25,
> there's more than 900 lots of cars, accessories, and workshop equipment.
> The
> sale includes race-prepared vehicles, support vans, and even an MGF
> concept car
> that's only ever been seen before at motor shows. There's also merchandise
> including clothing, mugs, keyrings, watches, slot-racing, and die cast
> model
> cars - even limited-edition bone china tea sets. Visit
> _www.wyleshardy.com_
> (http://www.wyleshardy.com/) for details of the event. -Richard Yarrow
>
> Cheers, I guess,
>
> Rick Feibusch
> Venice Beach, CA
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