A sporting type
“WITH THE 1929 M-TYPE, OR MIDGET AS IT WOULD COME TO BE KNOWN, MORRIS GARAGES MANAGED TO BRING THE SPORTS CAR INTO WIDESPREAD USE, WHERE IT HAS REMAINED, CONSISTENTLY, EVER SINCE.”
There is something about a bona fide sports car. It’s this genre that invariably attracts the most enthusiastic engineers, designers and drivers. While it may be possible to sacrifice luggage space, up the performance and open the roof, there is that one compromise that is more difficult to abandon: cost. Make a great car but, if the numbers don’t add up, then that’s it. With the 1929 M-Type, or Midget as it would come to be known, Morris Garages managed to bring the sports car into widespread use, where it has remained, consistently, ever since.
It’s a later, 1934, MG PA we have here, representing five consecutive years of improvements to the original Midget and nearly the end of its development, before the T-Types took over. The P-Types are blessed with softer lines than their predecessors and, for that reason alone, we might have paired it with its modern descendant, the MGF, but there were also plenty of mechanical changes underneath that help in our retrospective today.
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