When the first MG Midget appeared at the 1928 London Motor Show few would have thought that it would be the car to save the recently established marque from closure, a fate that affected many others during the depression that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Sales previously had been of relatively expensive cars to the wealthy and the other new MG on display, the 18/80 was even more costly. Right from the start, sales of the M-type Midget looked promising and soon eclipsed those of the larger MGs. These and those that followed dominated the sports car market in the 1930s and post-war, when a large proportion of the output from the Abingdon MG factory was exported.

This book gives details of each model, with a technical description, competition history and special bodied versions listed, all backed up by photographs, both period and more recent.

Malcolm Green is a member of The Guild of Motoring Writers and of The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain. He is well qualified to write about the MG Midgets, having owned and restored a number since buying his first in 1962. He subsequently met many of those involved with the early days of the marque. For over thirty years Malcolm contributed articles on MGs and other British sports cars to magazines like MG Enthusiast, Enjoying MG, The Automobile and The MG Magazine in America. Books he has had published are MG Sports Cars – an illustrated history of the world-famous sporting marque, MG T-series Restoration Guide, MGA Restoration Guide, MG Road Cars volumes 1 and 2, MG Britain’s Favourite Sports Car, MG Sports Cars 1929-1936 OHC Midgets, Magnas and Magnettes and with Graham Robson co-authored MGC – Abingdon’s Grand Tourer. In 2020 he wrote The MG Story 1923-1980 also published by Herridge & Sons.