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List of contents
Introduction
1 The Roaring Twenties
2 Midgets, Magnas, and Magnettes
3 War Years
4 Postwar Recovery
5 Superlative Sixties
6 Success Against the Odds: The Seventies
7 Changing Gear in the Eighties
8 The Nineties: Return of the MG Sports Car
9 Phoenix Rising: Into the Millennium
10 Renaissance: Toward a Glorious Centenary
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
David Knowles has become synonymous with MG history. He has a particular interest in the postwar story, when the marque exploded onto the world stage, becoming the preeminent sports car marque in North America, leading to the memorable advertising slogan: “MG. The Sports Car America Loved First.” By profession David is a Chartered Civil Engineer, but he has been writing about MG and Triumph sports cars (among other brands) for over thirty years. Always turning up fresh information for his fellow enthusiasts, his previous works have covered every period of MG history and every model either sold or, in some cases, only developed in prototype form. David’s thorough research has expanded into the parallel field of postwar Triumph sports cars, including seminal works on the Triumph TR6 and the Triumph TR7 and TR8. Previous volumes of his MG works have been selected as “book of the month” by leading UK classic car magazines including
Classic Cars and
Classic & Sportscar. He is a Consultant Editor for
MG Enthusiast Magazine and has contributed extensively to other internationally recognised MG publications.
Previous books include:
- MG V8 Twenty-one Years on from Introduction to RV8 - Windrow & Greene - 1994
- MG 1945-1964 Photo Archive - Iconografix - 1996
- MG 1965-1980 Photo Archive - Iconografix - 1996
- MG The Untold Story - Motorbooks - 1997
- MGB: Including MGC and MGB GT V8 - Motorbooks - 2000
- MGB, MGC and MGB GT V8: a Celebration of Britain's Best-loved Sports Car - Haynes - 2004
- MGF - Haynes - 2000
- MG X-Power SV - Crowood - 2005
- Triumph TR7 - The Untold Story - Crowood - 2008
- MGF and TF: The Complete Story - Crowood - 2010
- MGB, MGC & MGB GT V8 - la grande sportive britannique - ETAI - 2012
- MG V8 - Crowood - 2013
- MGB, MGC & MGB GT. O Esportivo Mais Elegante do Mundo - Volume 8 (Em Portuguese do Brasil) - ETAI - 2014
- Triumph TR6: The Complete Story - Crowood - 2016
- MGA: The Revolutionary MG - Crowood Autoclassics - 2019
- MGB - The superlative MG: Including MGC and MGB V8 - Crowood Autoclassics - 2021
David is presently working on a biography of Syd Enever, MG's famous Chief Engineer.
Summary
MG Century, authored by marque expert David Knowles, offers a complete and richly illustrated history covering the evolution of this storied British car company.
