Current owner: Allen Voskanian, NSW. Information: Built at Abingdon 6/11/33 together with 4209 in CKD form, both were shipped directly to Motors Limited in South Australia arriving in Jan. 1934. History: Motors Limited was a successful motor car dealer selling a variety of brands including Morris so these M.G. J2s...
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Current owner: Colin McGrory, UK. MMM No: 1906 Information: Built at Abingdon 9/10/33 CKD and bodyless for export to Australia. Delivered to Lanes in Melbourne and dispatched to Aspinalls to be fitted with one of their typical doorless 2-seat bodies. History: On completion the car was registered 130 582...
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Current owner: Andy Lucena, Victoria MMM No: 357 Information: Built at Abingdon on 31/3/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. Registered MG 2657. History: No recent history supplied however there is an article in the 1977 MMM Yearbook written by Allan Scott describing his acquisition of this car in...
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Current owner: Michael Schaefer, Victoria MMM No: 661 Information: The 14th of September 1932 was a busy day at Abingdon; they built the 100th example of the recently introduced J2 model, being one of 20 built that day setting a new record. Also signed off that day was chassis number...
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Current owner: Alan Davenport, Western Australia MMM No: 3545 Information: Built at Abingdon 11/9/1933 as swept wing 2-seat roadster for the home market. The MMM Register records UK registration number OY 6319 and the car currently carries that number in W.A. History: None provided.
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Current owner: Graeme Jackson, Victoria MMM No: 2409 Information: Built January 1934 as swept wing roadster, painted green with green trim. History: Delivered 19/1/34 to Geoffrey Benskin Ruddle by Squire Motors, Henley on Thames and registered JB 3417. Ruddle returned the car to the factory on 14/2/35 showing mileage of...
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Current Owner: Andrew Kerridge, Qld. Information: Built at Abingdon on 22/5/1933 as a 2-seater for the home market. History: Bought in UK during WW2 by a US serviceman who shipped it home on an aircraft carrier. Used by him and later driven by his son until sold to an Australian....
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Current Owner: Mrs Ruth Moore, Victoria MMM No: 2406 Information: Built at Abingdon 2/10/33 as a swept wing 2-seater for the home market. History: No history provided. First appeared on the register in the earliest days owned by David Moore apparently acquired in 1953. A note on the file states;...
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Current Owner: Peter Clark, Victoria MMM No: 2405 Information: Built at Abingdon 16/9/33 as a 2-seat roadster with swept wings for the home market. The MMM Register records UK reg. no. DY 7819. History: No history provided. This car has been on the register from the start, firstly owned by...
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Current Owner: Ron Killcullen, Western Australia Information: Built at Abingdon on 19/10/33 and shipped directly to Lanes in Melbourne as a CKD kit. Lanes dispatched the car to Aspinall to receive one of their door-less two seater bodies. History: Information supplied by Matthew Magilton On completion the car was registered...
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Current Owner: Gordon Taylor, Western Australia MMM No: 2417 Information: Built at Abingdon 22/9/33 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: No history provided. The car first appeared on our register in the very earliest days and with the same owner from the '60s through to 2022. Notes on...
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Current Owner: Peter Partridge, Western Australia MMM No: 2416 Information: Built at Abingdon 22/9/33 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: Fitted with a locally built two-seater body the car was owned by Clem Dwyer in the '30s and used to contest a rally organised by the RAC of...
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Current Owner: Ed Farrar, Western Australia MMM No: 2103 Information: Built at Abingdon on 26/4/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. History: No early history known. During the '60s and '70s Geoff Coles was very successful in the UK with a J-type special often described as a J4. This...
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Current Owner: Allan Herring, Western Australia MMM No: 1395 Information: Built at Abingdon on 15/3/33 as a 2-seater for the home market and painted red. It was first registered on 8/6/33 with number BRF 10. History: Purchased by A.H. in 1972 from the well known Bone Brothers "Bone yard" in East...
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Current Owner: Ian Burston, Western Australia MMM No. 1661 Information: Built 14/11/1932 as a 2-seater for the home market. Registered 1/12/1932 and used by a dealer as a demonstrator until sold to a lady buyer in England. History: Purchased in Bristol and imported into Australia by Owen McNeill in Queensland...
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Current Owner: Col Schiller, Queensland Information: This J2 based special has been a dedicated race car for many years and currently has a CAMS category Kb log book. Known history is that the car was owned by well known South Australian M.G. collector Don Shinners from 1955 to 1984 when...
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Current Owner: John Byrne, Queensland Information: Built at Abingdon 5/10/33 in CKD form without bodywork. The car was shipped to Lanes in Melbourne and dispatched to Aspinalls to be fitted with one of their door-less two seat bodies. History: It was sold to Les Murphy and registered 65.434. With Murphy driving...
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Current Owner: Arthur Morris, Queensland MMM No: 2411 Information: Built at Abingdon on 24/7/33 as a 2-seat roadster with swept wings. History: No history provided. The first reference to this car is in the P-w Register dated 1973 where mention is made of a J2 being imported by Ray Kleinschmidt...
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Current Owner: Peter Clark, Victoria MMM No: 2407 Information: Built at Abingdon 5/10/33 as CKD for export to Australia. Early images show it was fitted with an Aspinall 2-seater body. History: Believed to have been bought from a wrecking yard in the S.E. suburbs of Melbourne circa 1960 by Donald...
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Current Owner: Keir Whitcher, Victoria Information: J4417, the fourth last J2 produced, was built at Abingdon in 1933 as a rolling chassis for export to Australia. History: written by Graeme Jackson, full version appeared in Pre-war Newsletter No. 1/2016 Imported by Lanes Motors in chassis form in May 1933 together with...
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Current Owner: Jennie & Graeme Jackson, Victoria Information: Gary Grant bought the J2, registered ALH233, in the UK in 1967, brought it back to Australia and sold the car to Alan Bail in 1968. By 1982 Alan’s enthusiastic driving resulted in a thrown connecting rod, and the car passed wounded,...
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Current Owner: Dorothy & Paul Acfield, Victoria MMM No: 2399 Information: Built at Abingdon on 20/5/33 as a 2-seater for the home market. Delivered to University Motors and sold to Mr C.W. Rosenkranz with registration number MG2611. History: It was imported from the United Kingdom in 1979. John Holliday purchased the car in 1985...
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Current Owner: David Bishop, Victoria MMM No: 2627 Information: Built at Abingdon on 19/3/33 as a 2-seat roadster with cycle guards for the home market. An image from the '50s on the MMM site shows the car with swept wings. History: Early history unknown the '50s image mentioned above shows...
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