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)