MG Quiz

The latest question is sticking a bit. It is designed to broaden our knowledge of MG but not "drive" us to distraction.
For those at home now or for later the following picture may help



Remember clues are also in the question and :silly:

Remember the clue
G’day sports, I’m Sheila and I like dancing.
I knew a few famous Englishmen and have met a few at the seaside.

Still brain teasing :oops: the photo could be at Brooklands ???? but there i am lost :rant:

I'll expand the picture which will give you a number but do not think of battles!!

Come to that, I'll give you another - what would be the future !! :pinch:



Remember the clues originally :silly:
G’day sports, I’m Sheila and I like dancing.
I knew a few famous Englishmen and have met a few at the seaside. :silly: :silly:

Is that a woman I spy driving that car??

All 3 for that matter.... The dancing daughters?



The JB 6157 car run under Captain Eyston at Le Mans in 1935 by the all-woman team of drivers and later bought by Miles Collier, crashed on the road in New York, rebodied and race in the States by Collier, who also drove it at Le Mans with Lewis Welch in '1939.


Recently sold for £78,400, originally driven by Joan Richmond and Barbara Simpson, first team car home and the only original remaining, one was modified and one was destroyed.
The other cars were driven by Doreen Evans and Barbara Skinner and Margaret Allan and Colleen Eaton.

Near enough Luckymarine,

It was - Joan Richmond (G'day - Australian - Sheila) - one of the famous Captain George Eyston (world speed record holder at one time) Dancing Daughter team of 1935. see the following for an "abridged" history - the famous people, the links with MG .

Joan Richmond was an Australian race and rally driver. Born in 1905, she began her motoring adventures in trials and speed events in 1926, driving a Citroen. Early in her career, she was fifth in the 1931 Australian Grand Prix at Philip Island, driving an Austin Seven. She also drove a Riley 9 during her time on the Australian circuits.

Her first rally was Monte Carlo in 1932, again, driving a Riley. This was her first introduction to European motorsport, and she did not take the easy route in. Joan and some other competitors took Australia as their start point, and drove overland all the way to Monaco for the start of the rally. She was 17th overall. Still in the Riley, she drove in the RAC Rally later in the year.

In 1933, Joan purchased a 3000cc Ballot from 1921, previously raced by Malcolm Campbell - it was sold in 1935. The Riley was retained for rallies, and gave Joan a thirteenth place in the Light Car class of the 1933 RAC Rally, navigated by Kay Petre

Early in 1935 three MG-PAs were built for Le Mans. These works cars featured special tuning, suspension upgrades, and super-chargers. MG, looking for publicity entered three two-woman teams captained by George Eyston and dubbed by the press as 'Eyston’s Dancing Daughters.' Joan made the trip to Le Mans with Eveline Gordon-Simpson, as part of the “Dancing Daughters” MG works team and they were 24th overall, the first “Daughters” car home - all three cars finished the race in 24th 25th and 26th place. (Class win i think - edit??)

It was for her that Gerald Palmer designed the Deroy sports car that got him his job as designer with MG from Cecil Kimber.

The first picture was of the three “dancing Daughter MG’s PA 1661 (Reg no JB 1661 race no 55), 1667 (reg no JB6157 race no 57) and 1711 (reg no JB 6158 race no 56)

The second picture is of Leonidis - No PA1667 - what the above turned into - the future!

Well I hope we all learned a little more of MG's history/past - took me long enough to research - pehaps I better retire to simpler things. :coat:

Lucky Marine - over to you :woohoo:

Following on from the history how about this...
How did this...


And this...


Make this...

Have they all had "replicas" made of them

Austin - USA F C Austin & Co

MGA - USA / Australia

Nuffield - No idea :nonod:

Good try but not the right answer....

All to do with an engine change? Like
Steve Bowen's 1959 MGA with Mazda MX5 1600cc Twin Cam Engine
Austin Tractors from petrol to paraffin (paraffin was less highly taxed)
Nuffield from Perkins to BMC diesel

Well I given a hint or two here :woohoo:

As soon as I pulled the MGA picture and realised it was powered by a mazda engine I thought:
a) hmm, thats going to be miss leading if someone knows the car
b) good god Im going to get lynched!

The MGA is just meant to be a bog standard generic MGA.

Like the thought process though, wont be long till it clicks, its all about history....

The French Connection? All have raced at Le Mans :woohoo: Only joking.

All have moved from their original manufacturing premises.

Austin from Longbrige to Liancourt, France

Nuffield from Ward End, Birmingham to Bathgate, Scotland

MGA -original models were handbuilt and then productiuon shifted to Abingdon :pinch:

I don't know, I don't want to win (I haven't got a question ready) and I really havn't got any more ideas. Sombody PLEASE put me out of my misery :nonod:

I think its just the heritage of BMC...

Austin started in 1905 at Longbridge and went on to produce various cars and commercial vehicles. At ones stage it based all its models (car, lorry, tractor etc) around the same 3620 cc 20 hp engine. However it went bust in 1921, before returning the next year with a new set of smaller engined vehicles.

Nuffield came from before WWII with the merger of Morris, MG and Riley.

In WWII both Austin and Nuffield were heavily involved in the building of military vehicles. It was after the war that Nuffield came up with its own tractor in 1948 which was built in the former Wolsley factory in Birmingham.

In 1952 Austin and Nuffield then merged to form BMC, with Austin the major design influence going forward. The MGA was the first new MG to come out of this merger in 1955...