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MG TD TF 1500 - A TD in a childrens encyclopedis

When I and my brother grew up in England in the fifties we had a wonderful book where all the information you would ever need about the world - politics,science, history, nature arts, war etc - was presented as cartoons, with a pipe smoking professor sporting a Lenin- type beard being the teacher of a young girl and boy.

For almost 60 years I have from time to time thought about this book of my childhood, whose title I could never forget: " The all-picture book of general knowledge".

Then enter into this family history Ebay UK. Found a specimen there before Xmas, cashed out GBP 3.99 and it was mine! Reading it again for the first time in so many years I find on page 89 the professor smoking while a TD is being filled up with petrols 4 feet from is burning tobacco.

I enclose the drawing plus the title page of the book. Anyone else out there with similar fond memories of this masterpiece of basisc education?

regards,

Jan


Jan Emil Kristoffersen

Sorry, the title should read "encyclopedia" (S aside A on the keyboard)
Jan Emil Kristoffersen

The TD

Jan Emil Kristoffersen

Sorry, upside down.

Jan Emil Kristoffersen

Hmm. Looking at the dashboard and scuttle this might be a TF?
Jan Emil Kristoffersen

Wrong tail lights for a TF Jan and the fuel tank and straps are wrong. It's an off hand drawing of a TD. PJ
Paul S Jennings

It's a RHD car, as one would expect, and the dash glovebox just got a bit vague...

Tom Lange
MGT Repair
t lange

Yes, the artist probably mixed elements from the TD and the
TF. There seems to be a centrally located instrument cluster, but the bonnet line is not sloping as on a TF. But nice to find references to my favorite car brand in a book long lost but now back in my hands as by a time-warp.

regards

Jan
Jan Emil Kristoffersen

-and it has the TD bonnet opening latches.
Jan Emil Kristoffersen

Forget the TD or TF issues. I find it amusing they picked on the TD/F to talk about oil issues. The T's are the oil dripping queens.

And the author forgot to mention how the oil is recirculated from the ground to the T and then back again from the drips. Circle of oil :-)
Christopher Couper

You guys kill me! LOL
(Surprised no one mentioned the incorrect paint on fuel tank panels & lack of wiper motor on windscreen....oops, guess I just did that.)
David Sheward 55 TF1500 # 7427

Job security! LOL. PJ
Paul S Jennings

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