TA trivia

[LECH K ZAKRZEWSKI]

Terry, David et al, Please find attached a photo of the "Lord Ashley" TA, as you can see it's not the Park Ward car. This TA was built as a special order by the M.G. works in 1938, for Lord Ashley of Offord. I know very little else about the car except that the 16" wheels, chrome radiator slats and the fly screen are all shown as fitted when the car left the works. In Mike Allison's book, the car is shown leaving the works in 1938 with Cecil Kimber and Lord Ashley standing next to it. As far as I can recall the Park Ward car was originally a standard TA which was rebodied in about 1946 by Charles Ward as he could not get his hands on a Bentley or Rolls-Royce chassis. Lech.

----- Original Message ----- From: taterry@aol.com> To: david.whittle@aeat.co.uk>; the.zaks@virgin.net>; <> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:47 PMmg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Fw: [mg-tabc] TA trivia > In a message dated 2/5/01 1:41:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, > david.whittle@aeat.co.uk writes: > > > > > Is this the "Park Ward TA"? If so, you need to look at this extremely well > done web page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hemmo/start.htm > > Terry > > > >

[C. Knight]

LECH K ZAKRZEWSKI wrote:

> > Terry, David et al, > > Please find attached a photo of the "Lord Ashley" TA, This TA was built as a > special order by the M.G. works in 1938, for Lord Ashley of Offord.

I just noticed that that caption in Allison's book actually says "built for Lord Ashley by Offord". I assume Offord were the coachbuilders, since it would have been unlikely that MG would have had special (or any) coachbuilding facilities at that time. Interesting car though. Cliff