MG Midgets In Detail

When the firstMG Midget appeared at the 1928 London Motor Show few would have thought that itwould be the car to save the recently established marque from closure, a fatethat affected many others during the depression that followed the 1929 WallStreet Crash. Sales previously had been of relatively expensive cars to thewealthy and the other new MG on display, the 18/80 was even more costly. Rightfrom the start, sales of the M-type Midget looked promising and soon eclipsedthose of the larger MGs. These and those that followed dominated the sports carmarket in the 1930s and post-war, when a large proportion of the output fromthe Abingdon MG factory was exported.

This book givesdetails of each model, with a technical description, competition history andspecial bodied versions listed, all backed up by photographs, both period andmore recent.

MalcolmGreen is a member of The Guildof Motoring Writers and of The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. Heis well qualified to write about the MG Midgets, having owned and restored anumber since buying his first in 1962. He subsequently met many of those involvedwith the early days of the marque. For over thirty years Malcolm contributedarticles on MGs and other British sports cars to magazines like MG Enthusiast,Enjoying MG, The Automobile and The MG Magazine in America. Books he has hadpublished are MG Sports Cars – an illustrated history of the world-famoussporting marque, MG T-series Restoration Guide, MGA Restoration Guide, MG RoadCars volumes 1 and 2, MG Britain’s Favourite Sports Car, MG Sports Cars1929-1936 OHC Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes and with Graham Robson co-authoredMGC – Abingdon’s Grand Tourer. In 2020 he wrote The MG Story 1923-1980 alsopublished by Herridge & Sons.

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