What model of car is in the picture? Model and year please. Thanks.
It's called an MG Y-Type, the reason that it appears pre-war is because it was designed in 1937, Prototypes were built and road tested but before construction could commence, MG, like many an engineering factory, went over to war production. They made everything from submarine periscopes to tank guns. Their armaments production ran right up to the end of the hostilities in 1945. In the last few days of war the MG factory was destroyed by one of Hitler's so called, "Doodlebugs," or flying bomb.
The rebuilt factory resumed car production in 1947. War production had meant that there had been no intervening research and development, so the only models that were on the drawing board was the Y-Type and the TC, the latter being the little sports car the you often see a spitfire pilot driving in a war movie.
The success of the Y-Type allowed MG to discontinue the TC and bring it's successor, the TD, a sports car, like the TC but sharing about 80% of it's DNA with the Y-type. Here's a few photos of our car, enjoy.
From MG's archive, new Y-Types under construction
On the left is the TD that I hankered after, but with a wife who suffers hay fever, not really practical, hence the car on the right.
So instead of the TD, we have a Y-Type, same appearance but with a hard top.
