
This website provides up to date information for the Pre-War movement in Australia. We will include information from State and centre activities, individual input is welcome via email. Any issues or problems please email the webmaster.
Current Owner: Dale Parsell, Victoria MMM No: 2844 Information: Built as a 4-seat tourer. History: Car was fitted with a Ford E93 8HP motor and three speed gearbox when the original disintegrated. An original P-Type gearbox was subsequently fitted. Recorded incorrectly on previous registers as PA1352.
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Current Owner: Ian Northcott, Victoria MMM No: 2442 History: This car was built in 1934 and shipped to Sydney CKD to be fitted with a locally made body by an unknown coachbuilder. The first owner kept the car for an extremely long time (for an M.G.) and eventually sold it...
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Current Owner: Alan Briggs, Tasmania MMM No: 2433 History: Researched by Tony Sloan. PA1299 left the factory for Australia in chassis form in August 1934. It was shipped to Lanes Motors in Victoria who had it bodied as a 4-seater and then delivered, in October 1934, to Miss Nell Marrie,...
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Current Owner: Graeme Steinfort, Victoria MMM No: 2432 History: PA1298 was imported by Lanes Motors in October 1934 and after being fitted with a body by C.F.S. Aspinall delivered (new?) to H. N. (Bon) Reeve in May 1935. Bon competed in the car over the next three years with considerable...
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Current Owner: John Anderson, Victoria Information: 1934 MG/PA Chaisis PA 1296 Purchased by John Anderson in 1990 from Ray Gulson, Canberra. Previous owner Doctor Geoff Venn, Canberra, who used the PA as a daily driver. Australian delivered car in Melbourne New. Always a racing car with fabric boat tail competing...
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Current Owner: Andrew Fock, Victoria MMM No: 2439 History: Imported in 1934 by Lanes as a rolling chassis and bodied by C.F.S. Aspinall and Sons of Armadale. Sold by Britannia motors and first registered as VIC 202-133 in February of 1935 which it retained until 1945. Last registration recorded HAU...
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Current Owner: Ian Prior, Victoria Information: Imported From Texas USA 2008 Import papers indicated it was PA1212 however checking the chassis number later indicated it was in fact PA1677. This PA has been unaccounted for for many years. Bob Clare, the MMM Registrar un the UK relayed that Andrew Bradshaw heard...
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Current Owner: Brian Wilkinson, Western Australia MMM No: 1795 Information: supplied by Peter Meyer. PA 4-seater, Body Type B 252, Body Number 210/591. Original guarantee and body plates still on car. Mechanical clock and water temperature gauge fitted as original De Luxe equipment. Modern electric radiator fan fitted. Standard 4-seater body...
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Current Owner: Jennie & Graeme Jackson, Victoria History: The car was imported by Lanes Motors in September 1934 in chassis form, fitted with a pre- selector gearbox, clearly with competition in mind. Aspinall constructed the doorless body in time for it to run in the Centenary 300 race at Phillip...
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Current Owner: David Hall and Lyn Hayward, Queensland MMM No: 2425 Information: Original doorless body was later modified to include doors. Has all original tools and workshop manual. Was fitted with a Zoller supercharger which has been removed. History: Came to Australia in 1934 in chassis form. Fitted with typical...
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Current Owner; Tony Sloan, Victoria MMM No: 3304 History: as written by Tony Sloan. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PA 0481 PA0481 was delivered new on 13th December 1934 to a Mrs Kingstone by Lanes Motors and given the registration number Vic 163 529. Not much heard of until 1950 but changes...
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Current owner: Andrew Cameron, Victoria MMM No: 2435 Information: 1934 Dispatched from Abingdon as C.K.D. History: This car was first sold to Colin Dunne and was raced by Dick Souter and Arthur Beasley in the thirties at Phillip Island and the Grand Prix Meeting at Lobethal. Later it was used...
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Current Owner: Unknown History: The current owner purchased this car as a basket case from Brett Thompson in Using parts purchased from John Dalton and body panels from PA1566 a full restoration was undertaken over the next 9 years. The competed car is a full English style body with full...
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Current Owner: Elliot Burns, New South Wales MMM No: 3699 Information: Built at Abingdon in 1934 as a 2-seater. The factory chassis record card shows the car as being sold to a Mr Place and registered AJO 300 in Oxford. History: There are images showing AJO 300 in the 1940s during...
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Current Owner: Elliot Burns, New South Wales History: Imported by Lanes in September 1934. Sold to Sporting Cars, registered 15/1/35 VIC 200 005. 27/1/42 reregistered DP 619. 2/12/43 reregistered EW 506. Later reregistered MP 065. Elliot Burns went to Des Hardy to buy a P-type and came away with this...
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This website provides up to date information for the Pre-War movement in Australia. We will include information from State and centre activities, individual input is welcome via email. Any issues or problems please email the webmaster.