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Miscellany
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
Downloadables
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
MG Y Type Screensaver
(2.7 MB).
MG YT
Screensaver
(3.12mb)
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.
Trivia and puzzles
Trivia Quiz 1.
Test your skill and knowledge of the Y Type.
Trivia Quiz 2
how well do you know your Y Type?
Picture Puzzle No 1
Picture Puzzle No 2
Picture Puzzle No 3
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24 January
2007
Today, please welcome
Samuel Freeman and YB 0944 to
Ys on Parade.
Webmaster
22 January
2007
Tony Slattery is
drawing up floor board plan sets for the Y Type. Although these are
covered in outline in the book 'Let there be Ys', these will be fully
dimensioned drawings. Tony has supplied the first of these - namely the
brake master cylinder cover plate with the promise of more to come. These
will be on a separate page, under the Technical Centre menu option titled,
appropriately 'Part Drawings'.
Webmaster
17 January
2007
Speedograph Richfield
have confirmed (by sending me the engineering drawing) that they are able to
supply the correct handed hand brake cables for a YA/YT with offset grease
nipples. Please specify your requirement when ordering. Their entry
on the Links page has been revised accordingly.
Webmaster
17 January
2007
A new
Collectible has been added courtesy of Willem van der Veer
from the BP International Racing Success booklet of 1957.
Webmaster
15 January
2007
This month's
mid-month
Reprinted Article is from Practical
Classics, February 1999 and features the restoration of Steve Randle's YB with
all of its unique features.
Also added at this
update, to the Brochure page, are the MG YT pages
from an Employees Edition of 'Know You Models' brochure from 1948 and printed by
the Nuffield Group. The booklet begins with "'Every worker, from the
tea-boy to the top executive, should be a salesman for the products he helps to
make."!
We have also added
Craig Seabrook of the Whitworth Shop, Ohio, USA to our list of Suppliers on the
Links page for anything in wood (and a couple of other
things too) on your YA, YB or YT, Craig does a quality job and well worth
checking out!
Webmaster
9 January
2007
Honours for the first
wedding photographs of 2007 for Ys at Weddings goes to
Jacqui Crawford with her father's recently restored YA Also at this "3
Ys and a wedding" were Alf Luckman's and Peter Sutherland's cars!
Webmaster
8 January
2007
Today, please welcome
Gilles Bachand and Y 6486 to
Ys on Parade. Gilles has just moved this car
from Scotland to Canada, so we wish him many happy miles!
We have also added PDF
files of the exploded parts diagrams for both the single SU Carburettor and the
Twin Carburettors as fitted to the MG Y Type to the Technical Centre,
Technical Data page. Also, we have extracts
from the SU recommended needle book and needles sizes on the same page.
Webmaster
6 January
2007
Steve Brompton has
provided a new picture of YT 4825 for
Y on Parade so that the original yellow wheel trims
(unusually matched to the original upholstery colour and not the body colour)
can now be seen. Steve has also sent in a new entry for
YT 5139 too.
Also, we are able to
add the MG Inskip TD to our collection of
Interesting Ys. How does a 'TD' qualify to be included in
Interesting Ys? Click on the link to go
and find out how the YT gave rise to this emulation series car!
All of which leads up
nicely to the announcement of the latest YT List
from David Pelham, and the news that we know have substantive proof that there
were 891 YTs made: not 884 as we previously thought, or 877 as has
been touted for many years and which you will see in many publications, but
891!
The list gives fuller details of David's research and findings and the
subsequent reduction in YA numbers to 6,144.
A booking form has
also been added to the GoF West event listing for any Y
owner wishing to attend. Floyd Inman will be attending in his Y. A
booking form has also been added to the event listing
for the UK 60th Birthday Spring Run too.
Webmaster
1 January
2007
Happy New Diamond
Year! 2007, in case you had not noticed last year, is the
60th Anniversary
of the Birth of the Y. There are already a stack of events on the
Events Page for you to attend spanning the entire
globe, so you should be able to attend at least one of them! See you there!!
Honours for the first
Y on Parade in this auspicious Diamond Jubilee Year
go to Chris Porr of New Zealand and Y 6562,
please welcome Chris. Quite appropriate too really as New Zealand is one
of the first countries to see in the New Year!
Y 6562
makes yet another pairing with its older sibling Y
6561 too!
The
Reprinted Article
for January 1 comes from Practical Classics Magazine of April 1998 and covers
the restoration of one Neil Cairns - actually not the restoration of Neil, but
that of his YB and shows some pictures of Neil actually doing something
technical rather than giving advice to others!
The
Picture of the Month is a unique one and makes
a great year opener. It came from Ted and
Margaret Evans (Australia). You just have to have a look at this!
Whoever said old cars are environmentally unfriendly and irresponsible really
has not got it - have they?
Also, it just would
not be the holiday season if we did not have our usual array of cards from Jack
Murray in Artist's Impressions.
Webmaster
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