don't forget bob glammis of the businessman's coupe. he drowned in a freak
boating accident when his wife ran over him with the runabout in which they
were riding.
btw, enever got the last laugh when the MGA saved MG from extinction again.
it is interesting how many different cars were actually built at
Abingdon...the MG, of course, that started the "magic", the riley (which had
to be improved by MG before they could release it) , the Healy and I believe
even some triumph's were screwed together there - but I could be wrong
since most of the tr7's front suspensions dropped out on the road within 50
miles.
were there any others??
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>
To: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>;
<mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Mg-mmm] [mg-tabc] Bodywork designers
> "With MG producing new models quite frequently
> from 1929 on, one thing I have never come
> across is the names of anyone connected with
> drawing up the body designs.
>
> Was there a design team and who do we owe thanks
> to for the body lines of the various MMM and T Type
> sports and the other saloon and tourer models?"
>
>
> Interesting question, Clive!
>
> M.G. Lore has it that Cecil Kimber himself was very interested in the
> styling
> of the M.G. offerings. In addition several coachbuilders supplied bodies
> for
> M.G. in the Kimber era: Charlesworth, Allingham, Cresta, Styles,
> Tickford,
> and others, while Carbodies of Coventry probably supplied the bulk of the
> pre-war coachwork. It would not be out of the question that coachbuilders
> either actively prospected for business or were invited, perhaps by Kimber
> himself, to submit body styling proposals for consideration. That would
> have
> been fairly common practice in the motor trade back in the days before the
> advent of corporate styling departments. Remember that the birth of M.G.
> is
> credited to Kimber himself designing and producing special bodied Morris
> cars
> inside William Morris' own repair shop. Remember, too, that William Lyons
> got
> his start in the Automobile business expanding the Swallow sidecar
> operation
> to design and build special bodies for the Austin Seven!
>
> Of course, we know by whom and how the final body of the coachbuilt era of
> M.G. was "styled." The TF body was done in-house at Abingdon when Syd
> Enever's MGA prototype was passed over for production by upper management
> in
> favor of the Healey 100.
>
> - Mike Hughes -t?t-
> '37 TA 0512
> Alexandria, Virginia
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