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Downloadables
Safety Fast Newsletters
A full back catalogue of Newsletters scanned from Safety
Fast, from the first in 1992, to date.
MG YT Factory Production Records ~ recreated
(318kb) A PDF file by David Pelham (updated 3 January 2007).
The MG Y Type Buyer's Guide
A miscellany of resources
and articles to help you decide on how to buy and what to look for.
MG Y Type Screensaver
(2.7 MB).
MG YT
Screensaver
(3.12mb)
Let there be Ys Screensaver
(11.16mb)
5 Speed YB Conversion
(241kb) A PDF by Tony Vernall.
MG Icon
and
instructions
for creating a desktop shortcut to the website. You may need both
files.
MG Engine History
(330kb) A PDF file by Neil Cairns.
MG Y Ledgers
(310kb) A PDF file by Neil Cairns of guarantee plates, chassis numbers
and engine numbers, where this information is known.
Post War M.G. Saloon cars 1947 - 1999
(4.5mb including colour pictures) by Neil Cairns.
Miscellany
Luggage straps for the MG Y
Details on the luggage straps that were available as a period
optional extra.
Stories from the Rear view mirror
Historical research on individual cars by their owners.
Models of the MG Y Type
Details of models of the MG Y Type.
Historical Timeline
of Y history events and contemporary world news.
Sister Cars to the MG Y Type
by Neil Cairns
The MG Y Type Tool Kit
by Jeremy Havard.
Terry Ciantar's original tool kit
Photographs by Terry Ciantar. |
26 August 2009
The
Australian Motorlife
Museum in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia has sent in details of
Y 4192 (current advertised on the Classified
Advertisements page) to Ys on Parade.
Webmaster
25 August 2009
A photograph of the directional radio antenna adjusting knob as fitted to Peter
Sharp's Y-Type has been added to the
Interesting Ys
page.
Also, the last two pictures of YB 0414 from the former Dick Jacob's collection
have been added to the
Collectibles page.
Webmaster
24 August 2009
Two new cars have been added to Ys on Parade today
so please welcome Andy Goodyear with Y 5221 ,
and David Loendorf with YB 0549.
Webmaster
22 August 2009
Two new tyre suppliers, one in the US, and one in the UK have been added to the
Suppliers Tyre section of the Links page following
recommendations from owners, also a
Vehicle Restorer who has recently completed a rebuild and respray of an MG
YB.
Richard Knight has also set up a page on
Facebook
for MG Y Types.
Another Flickr photograph has been added too.
Webmaster
16 August 2009
Andrew Coulson's lucky band of Y-Typers begins their three day tour of Yorkshire
today. For those of us unfortunate enough not to be attending, the
mid-month Reprinted Article is
now available from MG Enthusiast, April 2007 and is titled "Why so rare?".
Webmaster
14 August 2009
Brian Moyse emailed today and said "They are more frequent than buses!!" so
today it gives me great pleasure to say please welcome
Brian Moyse with YB 0841 to
Ys on Parade.
This makes another "matched pair" with Keith Herkes
YB
0842.
Webmaster
13 August 2009
Please welcome
John Cummings with Y 5494 to
Ys on Parade.
Rather like buses - along come three at once!
Webmaster
12 August 2009
Graham Monaghan and Y 4037 joins
Ys on Parade,
so please give him a warm welcome too.
Another 48 pictures have been added to the Flickr page
too!
Webmaster
11 August 2009
Today, please welcome
Richard Bryan with Y 3804 to
Ys on Parade!
Webmaster
10 August 2009
Y 7012 has a new owner too, so today please welcome
David Hawkins to Ys on Parade!
Webmaster
3 August 2009
Tony Knowles has kindly supplied details of an Instrument Repairer that we have
been delighted to add to the Links
page. He also advised the J & L Spares no longer do repairs on wiper
motors, so their entry has been updated and a new one added under
Wiper Motor Rebuilds too.
Webmaster
2 August 2009
YB 0279 has a new owner, so please welcome Mike
Long to Ys on Parade!
Webmaster
1 August 2009
Already it is August
and the Summer is breezing past in the Northern Hemisphere, and for those in the
Southern Hemisphere now the days are getting perceptibly longer.
Today, please welcome
Ken Kimber, the new owner for YB 0838 to
Ys on Parade!
Our
Picture of the Month comes from Tony Bushell in
New Zealand, from the Kimber Birthday run in 2007.
The
Reprinted Article again comes
Safety Fast, October 1995 this time though, and is an article by Jerry
Birkbeck on the Banbury Steam and Vintage Vehicle Rally earlier that year.
Webmaster
Archive of previous
News pages
Click on the
hyperlinks below to see
complete archive pages of the news from a previous
month.
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