1931 MG C-Type Montlhery

I took this photograph at McLeans Corner during the Williams Trophy Race for Pre-1934 Grand Prix Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1931 MG C-Type Montlhery of Barry Foster which has a 746cc supercharged engine. The MG C Type was developed from a car designed for International speed record attempts which was based on the 847cc MG M Type with a supercharged engine reduced to 743cc to try to capture speed records in the under 750cc class H. In January 1931 Captain George Eyston succeeded in setting speed records for this class with several runs at the Montlhery race track in France at over 100mph and the subsequent production MG C-Type was given the tag 'Montlhery'. On the left is the 1928 Bugatti T35 of Bruce Stops.

MG C-type Montlhery

This car took part in two races, including the 2 hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-war Sports Cars, at the VSCC's SeeRed and Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Oliver Richardson's 1931 MG C-type Montlhery, with a 4 cylinder in-line 746cc supercharged engine. The MG Owners' Club's model guide gives this information about the car.

MGs at Oulton Park (3)

On 20 September 2015 I showed some photographs of MGs on the track at the VSCCs Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park on 18 July 2015. On 8 October 2015 I showed photographs of some of the competitors' MG cars in the paddock at that meeting, and now here are photographs of some of the MGs I saw amongst the spectators' cars at that event. I'm not such an expert that I can distinguish between some models of MG, so I can't positively identify some of these cars. Please let me know if you can identify any that I may have named wrongly.

This appears to be a T-type, probably a TA or TB, but definitely not a TD or TF.

1947 MG TC

1935 MG PA

MG TF

This is probably an MG PA

1935 MG PA Midget

I think this is another MG PA

1933 MG J3

1931 MG C-type Montlhery

MG Magnette ZB

MGA Roadster

MG Montlhery & J2

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in June 1982.

Both the MGs featured here took part in the first race of the day, a 5 lap handicap race. The car in the foreground is the 847cc 1932 MG J2 of Duncan Cotter, and behind it number 115 is the 747cc MG C-type Montlhery of Barry Foster. Oulton Park paddock looked a far more homely place then than it does now it's been covered with tarmac, though I suppose it's better for everyone now when it rains.