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KJ1592

United Kingdom
449 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  13:41:54  Show Profile
I just bought these interesting photos from eBay. I guess they were taken in the 60’s and you can make out the partial registration number of MG 29??

Does anyone recognise the people or the car which looks like an F2? I think we can all relate to the chap clutching his head in exasperation in the first photo.

Thanks,
Ian









DickMorbey

United Kingdom
3668 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  13:54:29  Show Profile
IAn, the range of possibilities might inclide the following:

- MG 2907 (U171215053802)
- MG 2934 (L0695)
- MG 2937 (L0698)
- MG 2940 (L0702)
- MG 2944 (L0575)
- MG 2949 (L2047)
- MG 2952 (K0369)
- MG 2955 (K2019)
- MG 2986 (NA0650)
- MG 2994 (L0699)

Dick Morbey
PA-PB 0743
Frieth, Oxon, UK
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Brian Watson

United Kingdom
188 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  13:57:24  Show Profile
Is the chap in the specs a young Philip Bayne-Powell?

Brian
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Onno

Netherlands
1020 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  14:15:14  Show Profile
Not an F engine.
But then there is more that looks non standard so who knows

Onno "J,D" Könemann
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George Eagle

United Kingdom
3217 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  14:23:31  Show Profile
Definitely not an F type engine - it must be an L type but as Dick has noted there are several possibilities. Dashboard is completely non standard!

I do not think the gent with glasses is Phil Blayne-Powell..

George
L2023
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paul55

Luxembourg
728 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  14:32:42  Show Profile
Is that a spare engine propped up by the tree in the bottom photo?

Paul.
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Robert R

Austria
320 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  14:35:00  Show Profile
Hello,
I think the MG 2944 (L0575) and the MG 2994 (L0699) are out of the picture in the public register.

Robert (F1164)
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Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
5942 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  16:35:12  Show Profile
That looks to be an L engine with Alpine manifold sitting by the tree whereas the engine in the car (being extracted?) looks to have the earlier manifold with the carbs closer together? Isn't that just how things were done years ago? I remember taking the engine out of my TD with it parked on the footpath outside my flat. I think a couple of us just lifted it out with no sissy pulley blocks!

Simon J
J3437

Edited by - Simon Johnston on 03/07/2020 16:35:48
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Terry Hartley

United Kingdom
276 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  16:57:04  Show Profile
Nothing to do with identifying neither car or people, but the first photo looks a bit 'set up' to me. If this is the early 60's does anyone remember the Three Stooges? Looks like they could well have inspired this.

Terry
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Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
5942 Posts

Posted - 03/07/2020 :  22:09:23  Show Profile
Could this be the L1 (L0699) which was fitted with an L2 body and cycle wings as discussed on this thread - https://www.triple-mregister.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17902

Simon J
J3437

Edited by - Simon Johnston on 03/07/2020 22:12:01
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PeterL

United Kingdom
1703 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  09:52:43  Show Profile
Doner car in the background in photo 1? Are we witnessing the end of an L Salonette?
Rear of chassis, cannot see here in photo 2 but might be better in the original, there might be a clue as to F or L2 chassis, I don't think it is an L1 chassis
Probably F2, J2 or L2 body.
Sealing strip around the firewall looks like P, not J or F, don't know what the L had...
petrol tank is of the later design so probablynot an early F2 or J2

On balance I think it is an L2.

Number MG29... should give a date clue as to initial registration and might be too late for an F2.
There is a spare left hand in photo 1, is this mum, wife or girlfriend inside the car at this point? Are they having difficulty aligning the clutch?
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Drolshagen

Germany
660 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  10:01:30  Show Profile
Good Morning,
The steeringbox seen on the second picture is not a Marles Weller
steering as fitted to a L2.
The petrol tank sides looks like L2, the petrol gage is hidden.
The engine is a L-Type with standard carb position - not Alpine.


cheers
Carl
J2 4362
L2 2036
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Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
5942 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  10:17:08  Show Profile
The only L2 contender, as far as we can tell from the files, would be L2047 (MG 2949) but we know it was broken up and its registration number ended up on L0699 - see the thread I linked to above. The engine sitting on the ground by the tree definitely looks to me to have the Alpine manifold unlike the engine in the car.

Simon J
J3437
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Eric Taylor

France
156 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  10:49:00  Show Profile
Adamant steering box in the first photo ,F type steering wheel in the second?

They could be trying to fit an L type engine into an F2?

Eric Taylor.
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Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
5942 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  11:06:56  Show Profile
The factory records do not show any F Types with an MG 29xx number. The car is obviously a bit of a bitsa which would fit with the history of L0699 which does have an MG 29xx number, namely M.G. 2994 originally and MG 2949 currently.

Simon J
J3437
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George Eagle

United Kingdom
3217 Posts

Posted - 04/07/2020 :  19:05:41  Show Profile
I do wonder if this is in fact L2047, original Registration number MG 2949, which does not appear to have survived. The door line looks very J2 which of course it would be if the car is an L2.

Given the state of the car in the picture I am not surprised it migfht not be a survivor! For the record I will post the picture in the file for L2047 but with a question mark.

L2047 is linked with L0699 - original Registration MG 2994 - due to the fact the bonnet currently fitted is clearly original to L2047 as is it's Registration number which is recorded in the NAMMM 2020 Membership Directory as MG 2949

I agree with Simon's observation that the engine leaning against the tree does have the Alpine inlet manifold.

All very interesting.

George
Registrar F/L/N types.
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