Just an advance note that 2023 will mark the Centenary of the M.G., so guess what the featured marque will be at Pre-War Prescott 2023?!
In 1923 Cecil Kimber, the founder of M.G. Cars, designed, built, advertised and sold his first M.G. sports cars. He called them the ‘M.G. Super Sports Morris’, with sporting coachwork by Charles Raworth. The first fully documented sale was to Oliver Arkell, of the Arkell Brewing dynasty (now Donnington brewery, which will be one of the stops on our Friday tour this year), in August 1923.
Under Kimber the company grew quickly to produce a plethora of sporting models, until he resigned from the Abingdon Company in November 1941. Kimber was tragically killed in a train crash in 1945, he did not live to see his legacy of hundreds of thousands of Britain’s favourite sports cars produced. Car production ceased at Abingdon, the spiritual home of M.G., in 1980, then continued at Longbridge until 2011, and continues to this day in China.
M.G. Centenary 2023
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