The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

This is the third image of 1930 MG Midget WM 5228 to appear in this spot, following on from TMC nos. 311 and 321. Here, a young couple occupy the car’s bench seat together with their ‘bitza’ dog. The Midget is showing signs of age with fabric coming away from both the bottom of the scuttle and the nearside door, while the occupants should be commended for using the open car in what looks to be the winter.

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

MG Midget (WM 5228, 2/M 1702) is a survivor according to the Triple M Register and was built on 22nd May 1930. The Network has acquired six images of the car all displaying the same modified body as shown here. Two shots of the car could have been taken in the pre-war years, while the remaining four (including this one) show the car in a run-down state and appear to have been taken in the early period of the Second World War. (Note the headlamp shroud)

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

Although it appears to be a 1930 season car, GW 6470 is a late 1931 London registered MG M Type Midget which should be displaying a second bonnet catch and angular hooded wings. It’s location is also an interesting puzzle. Does anyone recognise those beautiful three-storey medieval buildings?

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

This looks like an in-period image of a fairly new looking late 1931 (32 season) Brighton registered MG Midget (UF 7909). It is certainly unusual to see a photo of an M Type with its all-weather gear in place and illustrates perfectly why many chose to drive the car in all weathers with the hood down.

Following on from last week’s Hornet Specials image is another shot of the same car (EPO 192) taking part at what we now know was a Firle Hill hillclimb, thanks to the local knowledge of Network member, Keith Durston. In response to last week’s photo Keith writes: “…It looks to me very like the Firle Hillclimb about halfway up. The old track went up Firle Bostal from the village up to the top of the downs. Today the verges have become adorned with low scrub bushes which blocks the view of the weald below but there is a corner I have found on Google street map that seems to correspond to your photo shot. Having been up there fairly recently the view above the bushes is pretty much identical. Firle itself is only a short drive out of Brtighton so I think it all links together.”

EPO 192 is a 1932 Wolseley Hornet Special which is carrying a 1938 West Sussex registration. All that is known about this post-war image is that it was taken in the South Downs at a trial organised by the Brighton & Hove Motor Club probably in the late forties or early fifties.

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

This is a much travelled 1930 Cumberland registered MG Midget (RM 7401). In Triple M corner no. 151 it was photographed in Queensland, Australia sometime in 1934. On this occasion (image undated, although probably earlier) it is pictured on its way to the Great St. Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps. There is much to discover behind this car’s story…

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

The presence of the post-war Morris Minor convertible helps date this image as being taken sometime in the very late fifties or early sixties. It looks like one of the cars featured, a 1931 East Sussex MG Midget (PN 9544) has not survived as it is not recorded on the current DVLA database. However, OY 1932, a late 1931 Croydon registered car has survived and has been in the same ownership for over a decade. If this photo was taken prior to the introduction of the 10-year-test then its likely that PN 9544 became a victim of that new legislation.  The clothes worn by the two young men in what looks like a middle-class suburban setting may strike a familiar chord with one or two forumists.

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

For a short period in the mid-thirties the village of Chalfont-St-Peter in Buckinghamshire hosted a hill climb event organised by the Bugatti Owners’ Club. Noted photographer Bill Brunell attended at least one of these events and in 1935 took a sequence of photographs of the competing cars, including the closer image of 1930 MG M Type Midget (RX 7455) seen here. The course was set out on an area known as Chalfont Heights which today is a private estate of upmarket houses. On that day in 1935 the car was driven by E.G. Wardrop while earlier in its competition career (which included the 1930 MCC London-Land’s End) it had been driven by C.A. Shelbourne. (More distant photo appears here courtesy of Motorsport Images. Their reference being: LAT Plate C0240)

The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.

This eclectic gathering of early thirties cars includes an Oxford registered MG Midget (WL 8418). Strangely, it carries a late 1929 Oxford CBC registration, yet according to records 2M/1167 (the car associated with that registration) wasn’t built until 5th March 1930? Was this gathering a car club meeting or simply a photograph of the occupants of a pub car park? The manner in which the vehicles are parked and that the setting was considered worthy of a photograph, suggests the former.