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Motors - a leading MG distributor and spares provider in the 1960s & 70s
Part
of our "Looking back" series ahead of the 45th Anniversary of the
launch of the MGBGTV8 in August 1973 and the 40th Anniversary of the formation
of the V8 Register in October 1978.
Looking
back series
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Motors was a leading MG distributor in the 1960s and 70s with branches in
Hanwell (west London), Epsom and Kingston in Surrey and Balham (south London).
In the late 1960s they also had a showroom in Conduit Street in Central London
where the V8 webmaster bought an MG Midget in 1968.
Fellow V8 Register
member Peter Beadle (a founder member of the V8 Register) was working at
UM Epsom in the 1970s as Parts Manager and has sent in the photo alongside taken
in 1979 outside the branch in Epsom. The photo alongside was taken by Tony
Hilton (now living in Australia) and features Damask 1471 then owned by Nigel
Wagstaff, Harvest Gold 1089 (Victor Smith, a founder member) and Glacier
White 1175 (Tony Hilton). It featured as a UM advert on the back of cover
of issue 2 of the V8 Register Journal released early in the New Year 1980. Printed
journals were produced in the days before the internet! The V8 website was launched
in May 2002.
As the photo
was taken in late 1979 there is no MG signage on the UM building, just
Austin, Morris, Rover and Triumph, because sadly the MG Plant and marque had closed.
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