MG
In 1923 Cecil Kimber (a previous General Manager at Morris) set up to build a sportier car based on mostly Morris components. MG stood for Morris Garage. The company grew in leaps and bounds by the late 1920s with the M type, which was then developed into the C type race car. Then the myriad J and P series were produced. They were all very good looking light sporty machines that were relatively affordable. By the mid 1930's Kimber sold his stake in the MG company to Morris Motors, after which all racing activities stopped, with the company concentrating on the sales of MG road going cars. These were the T series cars starting with the TA Midget, as well as a foray into the "Luxury" market with the VA , SA and WA models which came to halt by the war. The T type continued post war with the TC, followed by the first independent front suspension MG, the TD of 1950, followed by the more modern styled TF which finished production in 1954, while a new model was designed. The company started afresh with the MGA in 1955 which was immediately successful. This was evolved continually throughout it's production to 1961, until the advent of the monocoque MGB in 1962. Later the MGC came in 1967 fitted with the 6 cylinder 3 litre engine, when no more could be reasonably extracted from the 4 cylinder road engine used in the MGB. This was followed in 1973 by the MGB GT V8 using the alloy 3.5 litre Rover V8 engine. But let's not forget the little MG Midget which took over from the Austin-Healey Sprite, of which some quarter million were sold.
