[Mg-t] [Mg-mmm] [mg-tabc] Bodywork designers

[John Quilter]

The Triumph TR7 was never built at Abingdon. It was however built at three
separate BL plants,   Speke (Liverpool) first,  Canley (Coventry) second and
ultimately at the Land Rover facility at Solihull.  While early TR7s had
their share of quality issues, as did most BL cars of the time, the front
suspension/steering was not one of them.

John F. Quilter
Former Regional Warranty Manager British Leyland Motors Inc.
Brisbane, California

----- Original Message -----
From: "spook01" <spook01 at comcast.net>
To: "Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m at worldnet.att.net>; <mg-mmm at autox.team.net>;
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Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] [Mg-mmm] [mg-tabc] Bodywork designers


> 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 at worldnet.att.net>
> To: <mg-mmm at autox.team.net>; <mg-t at autox.team.net>;
> <mg-tabc at 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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