Registration No: SV 6402
Chassis No: 2/M-1027
MOT: Exempt

• Extensively uprated for competitive use and used for a number of hillclimb events with the VSCC
• Subject to over £9,000 worth of improvement works in 2023
• Supplied with three thick folders full of receipts and history documents

The MG M-Type was manufactured from April 1929 to 1932 and was sometimes referred to as the 8/33. Launched at the 1928 London Motor Show when sales of larger MG saloons began to falter due to the economic climate, the small car brought MG ownership to a new sector of the market and probably saved the company. Early cars were assembled in MG's Cowley factory but production transferred to Abingdon when the MG factory moved there in the Autumn of 1929. The M-Type was one of the first genuinely affordable sports cars to be offered by an established manufacturer, as opposed to modified versions of factory-built saloon cars and tourers. This two-door sports car used an updated version of the four-cylinder, bevel-gear driven, overhead-camshaft engine used in the 1928 Morris Minor and Wolseley 10 with a single SU carburettor generating a sporty 20bhp. Drive was to the rear wheels through a three-speed non-synchromesh gearbox. Early bodies were fabric-covered around a wooden frame but this changed to all-metal in 1931 when the majority of cars were clothed by Carbodies of Coventry and offered by MG in either open two-seat or closed two-door Sportsman’s Coupé versions. The M-Type enjoyed considerable sporting success, both privately and with official teams, winning gold medals in the 1929 Land's End Trial and class wins in the 1930 'Double Twelve' race at Brooklands. Total sales amounted to 3,253 cars by the time production ceased in 1933.

Built as a Carbodies two-seat Tourer and issued with the Surrey number plate ‘PG 6464’ on 28th February 1930, an accompanying continuation buff logbook shows that chassis 2/M-1027 was registered to the famous Hampstead dealership Rowland Smith Ltd some twenty-six years later. Sold into private hands during 1957, the MG spent eleven years as a New Zealand resident before being repatriated in 1987 and re-registered as ‘SV 6402’. Fitted with a close-ratio, four-speed Moss gearbox at some stage, the M-Type was acquired by previous keeper Mr Glister during 2000. Significantly uprated for competition usage in 2008, the engine boasts a Phoenix crankshaft, full race camshaft, Brooklandsstyle exhaust, Cosworth pistons / conrods and oversized inlet valves. Used for a number of competitive VSCC events, the MG was treated to almost £9,000 worth of mechanical and cosmetic work by Yorkshire Restorations in 2023. Entering the current ownership that same year, the vendor’s plans to go racing have been thwarted by ill health. Offered with a stack of paperwork relating to its competition usage, bills dating back to 2000 plus the continuation buff log book and original brass chassis plate, it is described by the seller as being in ‘very good to excellent’ condition throughout.

For more information, please contact:
Lucas Gomersall
lucas.gomersall@handh.co.uk
07484 082430