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The Rise and Fall of MG: When Birmingham Built Beautiful Cars!

Sound you'd hear on a Saturday morning that you'll never hear again—the distinctive burble of an MG engine warming up outside terraced houses across Britain. Between 1929 and 1980, Abingdon built half a million sports cars that made that sound. Today those engines are silent, the factory demolished in 1997, replaced by houses. But MG didn't die because the cars weren't good enough. It died because of corporate politics that decided Britain no longer needed to build beautiful things. This is how a profitable factory employing generations of families was sacrificed, and what we lost when Abingdon fell silent.