LOOKING BACK The official publication of The MG Car Club Incorporating ‘The M.G. Magazine’, ‘The Sports Car’ and ‘Brooklands Track and Air’, Safety Fast! Copyright MG Car Club 2021 2019
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ollowing our MG Midget theme this month, we thought we’d look back at a selection of adverts that were used to promote the Midget. From the Black and white adverts of the MkI which featured in various issues of Safety Fast! in 1962, to one of the final colour adverts promoting the rubber bumper MkIV before the factory closure in 1980.
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