Current owner; Paul Williams, Victoria. Information; Built in Abingdon as a 4-door saloon in 1936. History: SA0499 is among the first SAs imported into Australia, arriving 9/7/1936 aboard 'the Imperial Star' for dealers P & R Williams in NSW. Early owners are unknown prior to Graham Nicholls of the S.A....
Information / History: SA 0945 This is no ordinary MG Saloon Underneath the mild mannered coachwork lies a highly modified pre War MG. It started off life as an early model (694th produced on the line 1936) SA Saloon, and on the outside not much difference, except the hint of extra 30mm...
Current owner: Stephan Gaal, Victoria Information: Built at Abingdon in 1937 as a 4-door saloon for the home market. Sold on 14/09/1937 by Sycamore Motors Stamford, UK, registration number TL 6940. History: The first owner was a surgeon at Stamford Hospital, his name was either Mr de Braine or de...
Current owner: Ray Skewes estate Information: Built at Abingdon in 1936 as a 4-door saloon. History: The first record of this car is that it appeared in Mount Waverley in 1963 in the hands of John Drew who, at one stage owned three SAs. One of J.D.s cars is believed...
Information / History: In 1937, William Airy, a young well-to-do dentist in Melbourne, Australia, decided that a two door coupe body on the new MG Two Litre (or SA) would be his preferred motor car. As this body style was not offered by the factory, the car was imported as...
SVW / Capital Territory / 526 views
History: SA 2337 and the Peking to Paris Rally Built from the ground up from the remains of a burnt-out saloon (SA2337) bought from Morris Pavlinovich in Western Australia, and some more panels and other bits and pieces from another chassis (SA 1885 ex-Ed Ison from Sydney) that Harry had owned for several...
SVW / Capital Territory / 571 views
Current owner: John Crighton, Qld. Information: Construction was competed 21st June 1937 as a 4-door saloon intended as one of 23 exported to Australia, arriving on the 29th October 1037. Sold in Sydney by P&R Williams, believed the original colour was blue. The sales blurb read “Out of the hard...
SVW / Queensland / 538 views
SVW / Capital Territory / 522 views
SVW / Capital Territory / 524 views
SVW / New South Wales / 571 views
SVW / New South Wales / 480 views
Information / History: Believed to now be in New Zealand. New owner please advise
SVW / New South Wales / 467 views
Information / History: The car is the third and last type of Tourer made by Charlesworth for the MG SA. The chassis was made in November 1937 at Abingdon and then passed to Charlesworth for at least 6 weeks for them to build the body. The car was probably used...
SVW / New South Wales / 624 views
Information / History: This photo was taken when Graham was on the way to Historic Winton. Photos and info provided by Graham Hore
SVW / New South Wales / 540 views
Current owner; David Kellalea, N.S.W. Information; Built in 1937 as a 4-door saloon and became one of 23 SAs exported to Australia. History; Early history unknown, first appeared on the register in 1973 in Queensland, the moved to N.S.W. to become one of a pair owned for many years until...
SVW / New South Wales / 528 views
Information / History: January 1937.  The car retains its original engine and is very original throughout. No early history is known about the car but this car may well have been one of the original seven exported to New Zealand from new. It is a well-known New Zealand car that...
SVW / New South Wales / 610 views
Current owner: Dean Raggatt, N.S.W. Information: Four-door saloon built in 1937. History: The earliest record of SA 1137 is that it was purchased from a used car yard in Adelaide by David Ragless in the early 1950s. He eventually sold it to finance the overhaul of a Y-type engine and...
SVW / New South Wales / 604 views
Information / History:Â This car was completed at the MG factory in Abingdon, England in December 1936 with originally a black paint scheme. After completion, it was dispatched to Lanes Motors of Melbourne. One of only 23 to be imported new to Australia, it arrived in March 1937. After being...
SVW / New South Wales / 553 views
SVW / South Australia / 541 views
Information / History: Details 1936 -MGSA tick ford drop head chassis no. SA0491 engine QPH751 .Im in NSW and the car was at the last mg gathering in Bathurst. The car has been in the family since 1969 and i took it over from my late dad and bought it...
SVW / New South Wales / 595 views
Information / History: The car left Abingdon on the 27th September 1937 Barry Harvey purchased this car from Chip Hedges on 16th April 1977, just after Chip drove the car to Katoomba for the MG National Meeting, where he was trying to sell it for $3,000. It ran a bearing on...
SVW / Queensland / 613 views
Current owner; Royce Reed, N.S.W. Information; Built in August 1938 and delivered to Samsons and Sons in Newport Pagnell to be fitted with one of their Tickford drop-head coupe bodies.  History: It has a factory replacement engine which is being rebuilt and balanced. This is good as the engine has...
SVW / New South Wales / 597 views
Current owner:- David Anderson, Vic. History:- left the factory on 5th December, 1938. Chassis no. VA 2124T, Engine no. TPBG 2389 (as originally fitted), registration number ELF 638. It has been in dry storage for over 40 years, but some work has been done, (instruments restored by John Marks and...
Current owner:- Graeme Davies, Melbourne, Vic. History:- Built 10/5/38, early UK history and owners prior to 1998 unknown. That is when the wreck was bought by 'Bas' and taken to Holland to be restored. It was taken to SVW Spares in the UK for paint and trim. Completed in 2002...
Information / History: VA1446 (FH005) was purchased by Sir George Tallis, Managing Director of the Tivoli Theatre in 1938 when he visited the UK with his new bride. They intended to tour the continent but were dissuaded by the threat of war, so the car was brought back to Australia...