Description Uber-rare version of the world's oldest surviving MG model; one of only around 400 made and perhaps a dozen surviving; early Bullnose model; period LAP ohv cylinder head; in the current ownership for 38 years; expertly restored over an 8-year period and in simply simply wonderful condition throughout A man of enormous energy and creative flair with petrol flowing through his veins, Cecil Kimber joined Morris Motors in March 1921, initially as a sales manager, but was soon promoted to run The Morris Garages in Alfred Street, Oxford.

An autonomous part of the main Morris company, Morris Garages was a retail sales and service centre, but under Kimber it became something of a ‘skunk works’ department, specialising in modifying the standard Morris Oxford/Cowley chassis, tuning up the engines and running gear and fitting special lightweight coachwork.

Known as ‘Kimber Specials’, they bore both Morris and MG badges and it wasn’t until 1928 that The Morris Garages enterprise had ...