In 1928, MG introduced its Midget series.

The new M-Type rode on a miniscule 6 foot, 6 inch wheelbase and was powered by an 847cc overhead camshaft engine.

It gave way to successive Midgets which gradually grew in length and engine displacement.

The final Midget to use the free-revving overhead cam four was the PB of 1936, which had grown to 7 feet 3 5/16 inches and a displacement of 939cc.

But by the close of 1936, those overhead cam MGs were a thing of the past.

However, the Midget was very much alive with the new pushrod-powered TA, introduced in mid-1936.

The TA looked a little different than the car it replaced.

It retained that upright grille with chrome surround, relatively long bonnet and spindly wire wheels beneath sweeping fenders.

Wheelbase had dropped a 5/16 of an inch, but the engine had grown to 1,292cc.

That engine, though was an entirely different sort of power plant for an MG Midget.

It had a small 63.5mm bore and a long 102mm stroke.

Power was up substantia...