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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. |
28 November 2009
Please welcome Nick
Rowell, the new owner of Y 0734 to
Ys on Parade.
Webmaster
26 November 2009
Tony Slattery has
some more photos for Ys at Weddings - this time with
Y 3755!
Webmaster
25 November 2009
Tony Slattery has
sent in two more great pictures from his daughter's wedding on 21
November 2009!
Webmaster
24 November 2009
Tony Slattery has
sent in a picture from his daughter's wedding on 21
November 2009: our congratulations to Erin and Sean Gregory too.
Webmaster
22 November 2009
Peter Lee has sent in
an entry for his Y 1302 based Special for
Ys on Parade. Thank you Peter, and welcome to
Ys on Parade.
A new price list has
been uploaded for Roger Furneaux and Mad Metrics.
Webmaster
19 November 2009
Peter Lee from
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, has made a Special Bodied car from a
Y Chassis. Click
here for more
information!
Another new
Snippet has been added too from the Autocar, April
11, 1952 Rally of Great Britain.
Webmaster
17 November 2009
A new
Snippet has been unearthed by Tony Slattery and
added. It is from the 1992 MG T Yearbook! If you know anything about
this event, please let the webmaster know.
Also added is a cutting from The Autocar, April 11, 1952.
Webmaster
16 November 2009
Today please welcome
Julian Bosworth, the new owner of YB 0477, and a
new car to the Parade of YB 0817. Also,
please welcome Harold Clarke as the new owner of Y
4293.
New item has been
added to the Technical Data page - a reprint of the Lucas
Service Guide on Generators and Control Boxes and on how to rebuild your starter motor.
Webmaster
15 November 2009
YB 1170 will
debut today at the UK NEC in Birmingham. If you are in the area, go along and
have a look at her.
The mid-month
Reprinted Article update has
also been added and is a translation into American English of the article
released at the beginning of the month.
Webmaster
11 November 2009
Preliminary details
of the 13th Annual UK Spring Run and Dinner have been announced on the
Events page. Remember, if you are organizing a Y
Type event, let us know so that we can add it to the Events
page.
Neil Cairn's has also
added the final chapter in his log of putting YB 1170 back into operation for
the MG Car Club here.
Webmaster
10 November 2009
Today, we have a new holder for the title of
"Oldest Y on the site"! Please welcome Douglas van Norden with
Y 0296 to
Ys on Parade.
Day Fourteen of Neil
Cairns' has been added to his log on YB 1170. Read more by clicking
here.
Webmaster
9
November 2009
Peter Sharp recently
visited George Campbell (owner of Y 7009) to
pick up some bits. While he was there he took some pictures of some unique
features fitted to George's Y. These have been added
Interesting Ys.
Please also welcome
Peter Northcott, the new owner of Y 1935 to
Ys on Parade.
Webmaster
8
November 2009
Neil has had a day
off today for Remembrance Day in the UK, so a new
Collectible post card sent in by
Karel Vermeer is added today to keep your Y "fix" going. Also, Brad and
Vicki Wilson have begun to send in details of Y 3222 which has been converted into an MG D Type Racing Special. We
look forward to following this project with them too!
Webmaster
7
November 2009
Day Thirteen of Neil
Cairns' has been added to his log on YB 1170. Read more by clicking
here.
Webmaster
6
November 2009
Day Twelve of Neil
Cairns' has been added to his log on YB 1170. Read more by clicking
here.
Webmaster
5
November 2009
The latest report
from Neil
Cairns has been added to his log on YB 1170
here.
Webmaster
4 November 2009
Yesterday's report
from Neil
Cairns has been added to his log on YB 1170
here.
Webmaster
3 November 2009
The MG Car Club was
recently left an MG YB (YB 1170) by the late Tim Pennicott. The MG Car
Club Y Type Register has been asked to bring the car up to full road-worthiness
for them. You can follow the progress of this under Interesting Ys as Neil
Cairns updates his voyage of discovery here.
Webmaster
1 November 2009
David Pelham supplied
the November
Picture of the Month, a compilation of three
pictures as I was unable to decide which to add!
The
Reprinted Article further shows
the international nature of Y brotherhood with an article in French Canadian
from January 2008.
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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