Lot details Registration No: RFF 130 Chassis No: XPAG/TD2/22021819217 Mot Expiry: Jan 2005
Postwar Midgets from MG were a sales success, first the TC with its lengthy narrow bonnet, tall and narrow tyres and beam axles all round, and then with the more chunky TD replacement. Although powered with the same 4-cylinder, in-line motor with pushrod-operated valves of 1250cc capacity producing 55bhp at 5200rpm, the TD was endowed with excellent independent front suspension by wishbones and coil springs dictating a more substantial chassis and wider section tyres on smaller diameter wheels, as well as more internally spacious bodywork. The 4-on-the-floor manual gearbox had synchromesh on the top three ratios. A live axle was sprung with semi-elliptic leaf springs. Drums all round were hydraulically-operated.
This lefthand drive TD left Abingdon in 1953, the current owner acquiring the roadster in 1988 whilst living in the US and bringing it back with him on his return to the UK in 1992. Since then, it has done very little mileage, he says, always being garaged, serviced and MOT tested, the current certificate valid until next January. The 74,000 mileage indicated when entered is believed by the vendor to be the genuine total.
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