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MG TD TF 1500 - Can someone please tell me..

why there was a TA, TB, TC, TD and a TF but no TE?

David Boniface

TeeHeeTeeHeeTeeHeeTeeHee......
gordon lawson - TD 27667

anyone want a cuppa?...Tea?
Cecil Kimber

Thanks for your informative replies however, I think I will ask elsewhere.

David Boniface

David,

Don't know if you were a little disapointed with your replies but the two repondents are actually correct. TE was missed out of the series because of the comical implications.

Cheers


Jan T
J Targosz

David- they are right! Remember most TD's were sold in the US.
George Butz

David,
Read your history elsewhere...but they are not kidding you, that is the reason. Another "missconception" on our cars (that I did not know about untill a few years ago)...M.G. does not "stand" for "Morris Garage" as so many people think it does!
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

Dave-
So what does M.G. stand for?
Roy
R. Challberg

Mighty Grand?

teehee

dave
D. A. Braun

Mein Gott?
John James

How about "Mother Goose"...

Cheers - Dennis
Dennis Rainey

Nothing. It's a name, not an abbreviation.

Do I win a tee-shirt? :D
Steve Simmons

Jean Kimber was quoted some years back that her father, Cecil stated that M.G. stood for nothing other than M.G.

It is a common belief that it stands for Morris Garages.

Personally, I don't care as long as we can continue to "keep 'em on the road"!!

rick
rick ingram

For anyone interested in one side of the argument...

http://www.lbcnuts.com/mg/mgname/
Steve Simmons

Steve,
Yes ...you win the "T" shirt ..please send me your address off line so I can get it on the way to you.
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

Very bad English (and true English)! When you put a period after a letter it usually stands for an abbreviation. But not the case for M.G. as I read the historical literature. I didn't realize so much could be written about two little periods!!!

R. Challberg

There ain't no periods on my octagon badge... :)
Will

Will,
That one confused me at first as well!
But, as I read more on the subject, they did make referance that this did not apply when "M.G." was "in" the octagon!
Whatever...you just gotta love a car that everything about it can spark a debate among the "experts"! It's all part of the fun of owning one! Heck, I overheard a guy telling his kid at one car show how he used to own "an orginial TF" ...but IT had "the engine in the rear under the spare tire". (a good reason to look for shows where they serve ale). I used to get upset...now I just sip a cold one and get amussed instead.
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
Contact me off-line and I will tell you of my favorite "debate" ...I don't want to post it here as I am still having fun with it!
David Sheward

Well,well. How do they say in English: "This really puts the cat among the pigeons..."
This is really something completely new for me but somehow it is as if I'm smelling a rat here. I mean: who wrote this so called "letter", are all the "eminent" MG-historians wrong then ??? This wasn't published on the first day of April, no ???
Hmmm.....
Nick, 52TD/63midget.
D.G.J. Herwegh

The dots don't appear in the octagon because the octagon is a logo, the same as any other company's logo. The name M.G. has dots when written correctly. Look on any car number plate and you will see "The M.G. Car Company".
Steve Simmons

My apologies to Cecil and Gordon for jumping to the wrong conclusion.
However, it seems a pretty daft reason not to designate the model as a "tee ee"; I wonder who made the decision, who said what to who at the time. Perhaps that will never be known.

David Boniface

David,
"Perhaps that will never be known"...ahhh-ha...therein is, at least IMHO, 1/2 the fun of "MGOwnership" ..nobody seems know anything "for sure" about our LBC's! At least that is what I have learned over the years on this BBS! They were hand built and my belief is that each and every one has maybe a "little something" different than the next one! The best explanation I ever got was from a Gent in the UK I had purchased several "period piecies" from.
He worked at Abingdon and informed me that all was...well let's just say, "not well" with the company whilst many of these cars were being built. He said he gets a kick out of the debates over "bolt sizes" as it was not unusual from them to actually run out of bolts on a friday and have to "borrow" a box from the neighbors! So, you might have 2 people doing wing assembly on the same car using 2 completly different types of bolts for left & right side of the car! Add to that that these were inexpensive cars so most have been tinkered with and put back together by the likes of many a back-yard mechanic who's main goal (like many of us here) was to get it back on the roadway...because that's were the REAL fun is...in the driving of them!
Hope you will join us offten on this interesting & enteraining quest..we could always use another "Dave" on the BBS!
Cheers & Best Regards,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

This thread was discussed between 05/05/2005 and 09/05/2005

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