Wilsons Sandbox

----- Original Message ----- From: MikeMarjot@aol.com> To: mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:04 PM Subject: [mg-tabc] New member David Miller and his TC > I was fascinated Jim by your note about our new member David Miller and his > 1848 TC. > > You will appreciate that this was the very first TC ever built, some 97 > years earlier than first thought. Unfortunately you got the chassis slightly > wrong it was actually TC -7787! It was actually built by the forerunner of MG, > namely MS (probably from Morris Stables) a privately owned company belonging > to that great lover of horseflesh, Sir Bill Morris of Morris Hacks fame. For > connoisseurs he was the great great grandfather of our Bill. David doesn't > seem to realise it but it had the very first XNAG engine too. This developed an > astounding (for its time) 54 bcp (baked carrot power). Morris seems to have > given his manager (an ex-hobby horse salesman called Kettle Kimber) a free > hand not even asking how he had obtained and output of 54 bcp or even how he got > the horse under the bonnet, except that it had to come from Bill's own > stable. Over time as the production increased and the chassis' began to approach > zero the company seemed to just fade away, leaving the legacy we now know. Its > even forgotten today that the pavlovas made at Abingdon, before Bill, were > believed second to none but their production and secret recipe disappeared, to > reappear in NZ more recently. > > Keep on driving guys. > > Mike Marjot > TB0450 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >

----- Original Message ----- From: MikeMarjot@aol.com> To: mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:04 AM Subject: [mg-tabc] New member David Miller and his TC >I was fascinated Jim by your note about our new member David Miller and his > 1848 TC. > > You will appreciate that this was the very first TC ever built, some 97 > years earlier than first thought. Unfortunately you got the chassis > slightly > wrong it was actually TC -7787! It was actually built by the forerunner > of MG, > namely MS (probably from Morris Stables) a privately owned company > belonging > to that great lover of horseflesh, Sir Bill Morris of Morris Hacks fame. > For > connoisseurs he was the great great grandfather of our Bill. David > doesn't > seem to realise it but it had the very first XNAG engine too. This > developed an > astounding (for its time) 54 bcp (baked carrot power). Morris seems to > have > given his manager (an ex-hobby horse salesman called Kettle Kimber) a > free > hand not even asking how he had obtained and output of 54 bcp or even how > he got > the horse under the bonnet, except that it had to come from Bill's own > stable. Over time as the production increased and the chassis' began to > approach > zero the company seemed to just fade away, leaving the legacy we now > know. Its > even forgotten today that the pavlovas made at Abingdon, before Bill, > were > believed second to none but their production and secret recipe > disappeared, to > reappear in NZ more recently. > > Keep on driving guys. > > Mike Marjot > TB0450 > > >