Road Cars: Volume Two (First Edition)

by M.G

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First edition

GREEN, Malcolm. M.G. Road Cars: Volume Two — Six-Cylinder O.H.C., 1931–1936. Surrey: Magna Press, 1997. Quarto. Original publisher's cloth. Spine gilt. Pictorial dust jacket. 160 pp., illustrated throughout with period and modern black-and-white photographs and technical diagrams. First edition. In the early 1930s, while much of the British motor industry was struggling for survival in the teeth of economic depression, the MG factory at Abingdon was producing some of the most exciting and technically sophisticated sports cars in the world. The six-cylinder models — the Magna F-type, the K-type Magnette, the L-type, and the N-type — were the glamorous summit of a production range that had, within the space of a few years, established MG as the pre-eminent British sports car manufacturer of its era. It was above all the K3 Magnette, supercharged and fitted with a preselector gearbox, that carried the marque's reputation around the great road circuits of Europe: class winner at the 1933 Mille Miglia, victorious at the Ulster Tourist Trophy, driven by Tazio Nuvolari and by the cream of British amateur racing. Malcolm Green's study of these cars is the definitive reference for the Triple-M period, produced in close collaboration with the MG Car Club's Triple-M Register and drawing on factory records, period documentation, and the accumulated knowledge of the marque's most dedicated specialists. The technical chapters on restoration, engine rebuilding, superchargers, and preselecto

• Binding: Hardcover

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