Built on January 8th 1925 today’s MG 14/28 Super Sports, seen here at the recent Brooklands Double 12 meeting is the oldest known survivor of the MG Marque.

The very first 14/28 Super Sports were built to enhance the image of the Morris Bullnose at Morris Garages, from which the marque would eventually take it’s initials in 1928, at Alfred Lane, Oxford.

When production started in 1924 Morris supplied Oxford “Bull Nose” chassis, the engines were mildly tuned at Morris Garages and fitted with aluminium bodies.

These aluminium bodies were finished with two tone paint schemes.

Many early MG’s featured these ventilation ducts which featured an octagonal inlet on later models.

Like wise the instruments would be set in octagonal recesses on many later models.

In 1926 the Super Sport would be offered with a fabric body option when the distinctive Morris Bullnose radiator was replaced by a flat one.

This particular car was converted into a hay mower during the Second World War and was discovered in a dilapidated condition in 1990 by the present owner.

The 14/28 which cost £395 when new and was capable of 65 mph was replaced by the MG 14/40 also built on a Morris chassis with a tuned Morris motor in 1928.

Thanks for joining me on this “World’s Oldest MG” edition of “Gettin’ a li’l psycho on tyres”, I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don’t forget to come back now !