"M.G. Trials Cars"

Subtitled "An Appreciation of the Works Teams", this large format book, by Roger Thomas, was produced to accompany the MGCC "60th Anniversary Weekend" celebrating the formation of the famous Cream Cracker and Musketeers MG Works Teams. Lots of photographs, some well-known, and a few (well-chronicled) captioning errors, but still a tour-de-force.

Page 9 (lower) : This is a notoriously ill-captioned photograph which also appears on Page 105 of Bacon. It is an unidentified MG 18/80 saloon (Cowbourne lists three such cars in this event), but it is at Park Rash on the 1930 Edinburgh Trial.

Page 16 (upper) : Park Rash?

Page 34 (upper) : This photograph corrects the caption on Page 182 of Bacon.

Page 34 (lower) : One of the two most famously incorrectly-captioned MG trials photographs. It was the subject of copious internet correspondence in 1999, resulting in this page of Michael Leete's Classical Gas website, at the end of which it was identified as Wrynose Pass on the 1935 MCC Edinburgh Trial.

Page 41 (lower) : This photograph is beginning to puzzle me. Initially I thought it looked like several other pictures that I'd seen, including the one on Page 27 of Bacon. But that photograph is now almost certainly identified as Pepperdon, and Pepperdon was not in use for major trials during the brief period in 1935/6 when Langley was driving the Magnette Special JB 6867. Cowbourne lists Langley's number in all the major events during 1935/6, and "10" doesn't feature. So when and where is this?

Page 42 (lower) : Park Rash?

Page 48 : The other of the two most famously incorrectly-captioned MG trials photographs. It is one of a series of Brunell photographs. It is not New Mill on the Lands End Trial, but Dane Hill in Kent, most likely during the Margate and District Car Club's Wye Cup Trial on 21st February 1937. Photographs of the same event appear on Pages 122 and 156 of Bacon.

Page 53 (lower) : This is certainly taken on the 1938 Colmore Trial (entry number checked in Cowbourne) and we're pretty certain it's at the top of New Kineton.

Page 56 (lower) : This is Green negotiating the watersplash at the approach to New Kineton on the 1939 Colmore Trial.

Page 58 (lower) : This is Green during the Maidstone and Mid Kent Motor Club's Bossom Trial on 6th February 1938, but we haven't yet identified where.

Page 66 (upper) : This is, I think, one Brunell photograph from a number taken at the same spot on Gypsy Lane during the 1934 Colmore Trial.

Page 72 : The 1934 Abingdon Trial was the first recorded use of Juniper, the classic Cotswolds section, for a major Trial.

Page 84 (lower) : This photograph also appears on Page 183 of Bacon where it is captioned, I assume incorrectly, as 1937.

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