Re: TA airline trivia
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2001 3:18 pm
Hi David - once again it seems as if people have been corresponding
"off-list" because some replies are to emails I did not get, in particular
the first one that must have started things off!!!
The factory records unfortunately are no help whatsoever, which lends
strength to the conclusion that they were compiled as cars started down the
line, i.e. after the engine was fitted but before the body.
As to the TWO airlines, these are confirmed in David Knowles excellent book
"MG, The Untold Story", page 37, where he says they were advertised at 295
(against 269 for the Tickford and 222 for the standard car.
ocTagonally Roger
>Thanks for the picture and info, that TA Airline is lovely in Black & >Yellow, please post a photo of the Lord Ashley TA, I have not seen this >before. Does it have any interesting mechanical differences, how did it >come into existence, what did the factory charge for it? > >Regards David Whittle > >ps, many thanks to all who answered my original posting, strange how the >story of 2 TA Airlines has become established, and even stranger that >Robson (MG Expert!) thinks non exist today. >From: LECH K ZAKRZEWSKI >To: mg-tabc group >Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:26 PM >Subject: [mg-tabc] TA trivia > > >Graham Robson was quite right, Airline Coupe derivatives of the TA were >built, at least one still exists. It is based in Switzerland, attached is a >photo taken during the M.G.C.C. International Meeting at Interlaken >(Switzerland) in 1998, I have a few more pictures of this car and the >special bodied TA built for Lord Ashley by the works in 1938 (page 126, The >Magic of M.G. by Mike Allison) if anyone is interested.