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MG TD TF 1500 - Options

We have mentioned options on occasion and thought they were all done at dealers...
A friend gave me one of the original ads for the TD and I noticed some factory options listed.

gblawson(gordon- TD27667)

6" rear tires and wheels? Are they talking wide?
Bruce Cunha

Which magazine Gordon?

Matthew.
Matthew Magilton

It isn't an ad, it is a factory printed item sent out to dealers....

gblawson(gordon- TD27667)

"6" rear tyres and wheels" is very interesting.
Even more so when combined (in the same flyer) with "twin spare wheel carrier".
Am I reading too much into this?
Twin spares...as in one width for the front and another for the rear?
A good reason to carry two!
David Sheward

Like the twin carrier in my pic on the Period Photos thread. I wonder if they are 6" rims too?

Matthew.

Matthew Magilton

Hello Gordon
From the lack of holes in the wheel rims, I would think that this add is from late 1949 or early 1950. MG made very few of these with solid rims. They also don't list the "Ash Tray" which was a later option. John
John Hambleton

Gordon:

Don't they really mean 6.00 X 15 tyres? Magazine tests of Stage-tuned cars somtimes showed them fitted.

Alex
A W Risk

What's the standard rim width - it is under 5 or 5-1/2? Perhaps that's what they meant, that competition rims were wider at 6".

I was just looking at an amended parts list for the TD, and find the "Double Spare WHeel Carrier" in section P under part 500164, superceded by part nyumber 500494, commencing at chassis 12285.

Tom Lange
Bar Harbor, Maine
t lange

I don't have a T, but I do have a measuring instrument. MGA have 4" wheels, with the same size tires 5.50x15 or 155x15. Jag XKE have 5" wheels, with 6.40 x 15 (185x15) tires - a very high performance car from one or two engineering generations later. I can believe 6.00x15 section tires, possibly on 4.5 wheels, but I find 6" wheels a very odd thing to put on such a car; in those days these were so wide as to be almost unknown - we used to sit and stare at any we met, on a race car or a really big Buick or Chrysler. Additionally, a 6" wheel would have been fitted with a tire around 7-8" wide. Maybe there was a secret 300bhp option which needed them.

FRM
FR Millmore

This thread was discussed between 28/10/2011 and 29/10/2011

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