Making MG Cars At Abingdon: Silent Documentary (1931)

[@dunmail7744]

I like the "no scrub" front wheel alignment. That's the correct way to do it.

[@Leylandman1]

I'm still driving my 1978 MG Midget. That I bought brand new, from British Motors of Sacramento.

[@tomdzamko]

Fantastic film footage of a classic sports car being made!

[@iaidagger8278]

When my father was in the Argentine Embassy in Brazil he bought directamente from England a red colour MG TC 1947 this eas an AWESOME sports car!!😊😊😊❤❤ever sinceramente l love the MGs in special the MGA Model!!😊😊😊Greetings from Argentina!!,very nice video!!😊😊

[@cecilkimber1476]

Many of the cars featured in this film are D-Types, the rarest MG road car. They used the same body as the F Magna the couple is picking up, but with a 4 cylinder overhead cam motor instead of the straight 6 OHC found in the Magna.

[@keithlevett9116]

My first car was a 1932 M G f type magna i learnt all about cars from it happy times

[@tarteampion8039]

Bring me back to this old MGs time...

[@robbell4339]

Fascinating to watch this - surprised that mating gearbox to the engine is essentially what I would be doing in the home garage! Labour must have been cheap back then…

[@mandsthetic]

Hi I'm Mandy, I am currently working on a project of MG's celebration of the 100 Anniversary, where did you get the source of this video? Is this video copyrighted? Is it possible that we use your video ?

[@G1951-w1y]

MG, not the most reliable vehicle but what fun to drive!

[@chonkershahn307]

Life was so cheap back then! Spray painting highly concentrated, lead based paint, with no protection what so ever. You could tell what colours were used, a day's end, by the guys coughing their guts up.

[@benjurqunov]

Lacquer paints are not lead base.

[@JJZBULLITT109]

@@benjurqunov He's probably the same know it all who will tell you of "lead fumes" from body solder. Funny how guys who have never restored a car with original materials know so much that isn't so.

[@donkerr7405]

They smoked even brand new.

[@bobdanis9040]

Everybody's got a tie on!

[@johnbossuyt848]

Super

[@shannonwittman950]

I was perfectly okay with everything going on in all areas of the factory -- no doubt these amounted to great jobs in that era -- until I got to the guys spraying paint, not even wearing masks ...

[@josephineedeeth.trowbridge8968]

Omg!!?😮

[@philhealey4443]

The chassis welding fumes presumably meant the pension pot for welders was rarely touched..closely followed by the paint sprayers, who rarely needed Brylcreem and the speedometer calibration team who had regular haircuts, if they knew what was good for them. No wonder the Nuffield Foundation decided to support healthcare!😢

[@gatehanger1385]

Incredibly crude production methods - even for back then! Overalls filthy - not exactly lean production :-)

[@peterwillis4583]

A wonderful film! ALL the workers are wearing shirt and tie and it doesn't seem that they have dressed up for the filming. One horror: Spray painting in clouds of paint with no protective gear whatever. Not even masks.