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Longbridge, Cowley and Witney if we are considering that BMH cars are counted?

Longbridge, Cowley, Pukou and Lingang.

MartinW wrote: wrote:

Longbridge, Cowley, Pukou and Lingang.

That's 4 but correct. I had forgotten about Lingang

This car...


is linked by this man...


to this car (28)...


What is the story behind these pictures and who is the man in the second photo that links the story?

SBL707 was a factory MGA Twin Cam race car

From http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/twincam/tc107-1626.htm

"Chassis nbr. YD1/1626 .1762 ccm twin cam 4-cylinder engine with twin Weber carbs. 120 bhp. Factory built works car.
.... The factory entered a team of Twin Cams, bored out to 1762cc to compete in the 2 Litre class at the 1959 24 hours. This car YDI/1626 was built on March 9th 1959 and dispatched to the BMC Competition department on April 7th 1959. Heritage records confirm that it had no engine number at this time. It sent by MG chief designer Syd Enever to George Tuck, then managing director of BMC in Johannesburg where it passed to Ralph Clarke (later Leyland production director). Clarke later remembered the Twin Cam arriving in South Africa in immaculate condition, complete with twin cam engine, for use as a promotion vehicle and confirmed it was built as a factory race car and was in full sports car trim for competition work. He also remembers that the intention in SA was to race the car in national events, where it featured heavily over the next 2 years. In 1960 the car took part in races at the Kilkenny circuit, in the Cape Town acceleration tests and sprints driven by I Philips and two hill climbs in Paar driven by R Turner. It was further raced in South Africa in 1961 by Turner but then does not appear on the radar again until 1974 in the Cape Town "East London" Cape Town rally driven by Mike Jenkins. At this time the car was exported to Canada. Here it passed through numerous owners before being re-exported to the UK in the late 1980s, where the Halfway Garage sold it to Charles Tyler in 1991. The present owner acquired the Car in 1993 and imported it into Switzerland. "

It later changed registration to FSK152, presumably when it was re-exported to the UK in the late 80's.

Ralph Clarke is, according to Google, the man in the R-type.

Need to find harder questions! Correct. Ralph is a wonderful man whom I have had the pleasure of meeting on a number of occasions. He's now in his mid-80s but still very active in the Cape Town and SA MG community.

Righto, who is this then, and what is his link to MG?

I thought it was David Dimbleby at first glance



A clue;
The man in question is of more interest to the F'ers than the TF'ers.

Happy hunting

Thanks for the clue, PQD, I must admit I didn't recognise the younger picture, but if you ever get the chance to visit The Hall, it is well worth it, as there is a small museum showing Sir Alex Moutlon's life-long work in suspension work, but it is not open to the public so you need to go as part of an organised tour.
Edit: How does one rotate the photo? It was taken this August when I was on the LE-JOG run with a bunch of 1100 owners. Sir Alex is 93 or 94, I think.

Yep that's him, Sir Alex Moulton. Over to you Martin.

For some reason, the forum is playing up again like it did yesterday and is not showing my posts when I press the submit button.

On the 5th of April 2006 which famous singer was found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff. This was almost one year after MG Rover collapsed. The singer was famous for a song that was a day from a certain US city.

About the same time NAC announced some long-awaited news that Americans had been desperate to hear since 1980. The news was that not only was MG to be offered in the USA, but also that production might start there.

Find the singer, establish the song title, then look at the NAC news regarding the planned production facility and "State" the link between the song and the NAC news.

OK, so I think the singer was Gene Pitney, and the song "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa". Tulsa being in Oklahoma, the state where NAC had planned to open a factory.