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MG TD TF 1500 - Early Dealer Documentation Page

I have gone back into my electronic junk box and discovered a lot of historic dealer/importer documentation that others have sent me. There is some pretty neat stuff in here such as export cards, sales receipts, guarantee and even a letter from Nuffield about shipping a car home after a factory delivery.

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_documentation.htm

I still have more digging in the junk box but if you have anything you would like to contribute to this page please email me a high resolution image and explanation so I can share it with others. Credit gladly given.

I just love the Internet :-)
Chris Couper

Brilliant, Chris; materials we would not otherwise ever see.

Tom Lange
t lange



Way to go, Chris! Though I am a late-comer to ownership of a TD and a TF, I have always had a visual intoxication and, desire to own, either of these beautiful autos! I love finding as much info as possible for our lbcs. I am mechanically challenged as well and look forward to learning as much as possible from all you experts!

Masny thanks,

Jerry

Jerry Chandler 1951 TD

Chris, I have two '53 TD's. One was sold by Woodhouse and has the plaque on the bonnet and the other was sold through University Motors and it too has the proper badge on it.
Are there any records left showing who the cars were first sold to or to where they were sent? I can trace the records back to the mid-sixties but it stops there. I'd like to know some more about the cars but have not been able to find any early info. Mark
Mark Strang

Can you take a picture of the University Motors badge for me?

There really is no registry that I am aware of. Too bad. Even the production info was destroy let alone all the records on where they were shipped to etc.

Of course the best we would have from the factory is the type of info we see here. They never knew what happened to the cars once they got loaded on the ships.
Chris Couper

Chris, I'll get something to you in a few days. I'm out of pocket for a while. Mark
Mark Strang

Chris,

Don't know if this is of any interest for you. But here is a pic of the badge that "Molenaar's Automobilelbedrijf NV" was used to mount on the cars. In those days Molenaar was the importer of MG's etc. for the Dutch market. They also operated an assembly line for Morris cars.

Nowadays the badge is very hard to get. I was able to buy one for too much money (I even did not have the guts to tell my wife...).

Molenaar ended her activities in the sixties. Fortunately its archives are available.

A total of 127 TD's were imported for the Dutch market, my TD3966 of October 1950 was number 26 on that list.

Jasper

JL Nederhoed TD#3966

Ans here a pic with the badge on TD3966.

Jasper



JL Nederhoed TD#3966

Mark, many TD/TF's were sold thru the Woodhouse and Odendahl dealerships in occupied Germany. Many of them via the PX system and shipped back to the US.
The Woodhouse "Germany" cars have the twin spires of Cologne Cathedral, while the Odendahl cars have a blue oval badge, both are on the right hand side panels.

The PO of our car has the documentation on my car, but it is lost in her archives. Being 90 with poor eyesight I doubt it will be found.

I will check with one other source who's car is still in the hands of the original owner.

Keep you posted.
colin stafford

Chris, here are the photos of the badges that I mentioned. I'll do two postings. This one is the Woodhouse badge on my '53 TD 28332, June 9, 1952. I believe that this car came into the west coast since it was sold to my fraternity brother while he was in California. It ended up in the U.P.of Michigan where I am from and went to college. That's the connection with my frat brother. I have documentation going back to at least 1967 on this one.
The second photo is the University Motors badge on my other '53 TD 29885, August 17,1953(the last day of production). I think that this car came into the US via the east coast since the previous owner knew the history of the car to 1964 and indicated that it had been in Virginia where I live for many years prior to that and had been owned by a navy guy. Hope these will add to your data base. Mark

Mark Strang

Chris, here is the second photo. This is the University Motors Badge. It is located on the glove box door. Mark

Mark Strang

Thanks. I posted them and your University Motors story on a new page I am working on for European dealers.

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_european.htm
Chris Couper

Just so Australia is not left out, here are some dealer & lubrication advice plates from the collection of Mr Jeff Newey. These were fitted to cars sold new in New South Wales.

Matthew.

M Magilton

Here is one of the Victorian dealers plates for Stillwell and George of Melbourne, this one fitted to a TD.

Matthew.

M Magilton

Here is a TF plate from P&R Williams who were the MG importers for New South Wales and both sold cars themselves as well as supplying a network of New South Wales dealers.

M Magilton

Here is the original Lane's Motors plate on my TF. Lane's in Melbourne were the second largest Australian importer of T types after P&R Williams of Sydney.
The other Australian importers were:
Motors Ltd of Adelaide, South Australia;
Comet Motors of Perth, Western Australia and
Howard's Pty Ltd of Brisbane, Queensland.

Matthew.

M Magilton

Rats. Now I have to create an AP web page :-(
Chris Couper

Just to get Matthew off my back:

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_asia_pacific.htm

We now have a place for Rod and others in AP to send info to.
Chris Couper

And we can't leave out you Europeans either

http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_european.htm
Chris Couper

Here is another Nuffield-Frankfurt plate sent to me by Frank Cronin, owner of TF1414.

Love ya work Chris.

Matthew.

M Magilton

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