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Tim Phelps
United Kingdom
167 Posts |
 Posted - 04/10/2021 : 14:51:08
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My friend asked me to help with more information on a car his mum owned many years ago. Apparently his dad made his mum sell it as the doors kept flying open!
I'm struggling to identify it - might be a T Type, but it has outside laced front wheels and centre laced rear ones. Exhaust smoke suggests pipe on off side hence not MMM.
Registration number not known to DVLA.
Car has twin spares so might have been used for trials or endurance at some time.
Thoughts invited, please!
Tim
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colintf
United Kingdom
1501 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2021 : 15:15:11
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Hi Tim,
I would suggests a TA or TB, not a TC (or later)
Have you also tried the MGCC T Register?
Colin Murrell
PA0786 (D0285 previously)
Photographer for MGCC (LeMans Classic, Oldtimer Grand Prix etc) & MG Motor (BTCC 2012-5)
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6119 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2021 : 15:27:14
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Those look like 16” rear wheels, perhaps the reason for the twin spares? That being the case, then the centre laced front wheels would suggest TA or TB.
Simon J
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semisport
United Kingdom
61 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2021 : 16:41:32
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CVB is a County Borough Council of Croydon registration sequence that ran from July 1937 until October that year. If the numbers were issued in a linear fashion then the car was probably first registered around the end of August 1937. (Source L.H. Newall's registration reference book)
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Tim Phelps
United Kingdom
167 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2021 : 18:59:23
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Thanks everyone,
Chris' info suggests that this is a TA. I've contacted Stewart at the TA,B&C Register who is trying to investigate further.
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John James
United Kingdom
963 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2021 : 19:55:30
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I think you'll find that the car is not known to the 'T' Register.
TAs up to chassis number TA1769 (December 1937) had side laced wheels. |
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bloodysalmon
Spain
1482 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2021 : 09:20:06
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Looks to have 19" but centre spoke rear and outer fronts. Love the tie that hooks to the door handle, clearly the solution to suicide doors flying open. It's a TA as there are 3 strips of running board rubber fairly evident. Radio aerial I suspect? Is the wiper motor on the wrong side or just put there to make it easier to operate as a driver I wonder!
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coracle
United Kingdom
1935 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2021 : 12:35:20
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6119 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2021 : 21:17:13
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Originally posted by coracle
Nobody has mentioned the small brake drums; T type hydraulics.
Probably nobody thought it was worth mentioning them as they were pretty obviously T Type and not Triple-M
Simon J
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Cooperman
United Kingdom
760 Posts |
Posted - 15/10/2021 : 21:38:34
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If you look at the running boards there are three rubber strips which I believe indicate a TA, I think the TB had a slightly wider body and only two strips as the TC. Am I correct?
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