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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFirst in the line of small sports cars that quickly gave the company its international reputation, the \u201cM\u201d type M.G. Midget was based on the newly introduced (in 1928) Morris Minor and shared with it the excellent Wolseley-designed overhead camshaft engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis car is an early Oxford-built example (before the final move to Abingdon) and has the central throttle pedal and transmission brake. It has Brooklands racing history and is equipped like the two cars that ran at Le Mans and Spa in 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe pioneering Lanchester company amalgamated with Daimler in\u00a01931 and this co-incided with Daimler casting aside their sleeve-valve engines (which they had used since 1908) and resorting to the use of poppet valves. In 1931 an interim Lanchester model, the 15\/18, was introduced using the Daimler fluid flywheel and an example won the first R.A.C. Rally in 1932. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn October 1932 a completely new design was announced with a 6-cylinder ohv engine and the Lanchester cars were increasingly \u201cDaimlerised\u201d, this example having a 1378 c.c. 6-cylinder driving through a fluid flywheel and bodywork by Mulliners of Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor\nBritain\u2019s first post-war Motor Show in 1948 the Nuffield Group introduced a\ncompletely new range of Morris and Wolseley cars, quite unlike anything to\nemerge from their factories before. The Issigonis-designed Morris Minor was one\nof the Earls Court stars but two new Wolseleys were there as well: the 4-cylinder\n4\/50 and the bigger 6-cylinder 6\/80. These both had, in the best Wolseley\ntradition, overhead camshaft engines (the 6-cylinder shared with the new Morris\nSix) and they were the first Wolseleys to have independent front suspension, this\nbeing an adaption of the Issigonis wishbone and torsion bar design. And\nsteering-column gear changes, all the fashion at the time, were also new for\nNuffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were\nnot sporting cars, although some private owners turned up for the Monte Carlo Rally\nfor a few years, and the Police chose them in quantity as Patrol cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The car\nshown is a typical 6\/80 saloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn July 1937\nLord Austin introduced to the Press at Longbridge the Big Seven. This was a\nsupplementary model to the famous Seven and had a longer chassis and an engine\nof 900 c.c. It was intended to bridge the gap between the Seven and the Ten. It\nturned out not to be a best seller and production stopped on 1939 when it was\nreplaced by the Leonard Lord-inspired Eight which became a real success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Big\nSeven did compete on a small scale, four works cars, for example, taking\npremier awards in the 1939 Exeter Trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David Blumlein\u00a0February\u00a02019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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