About this archive

What this site is

The MG T-Series Archive collects the history, identification, technical detail and practical ownership knowledge of the TA, TB, TC, TD, TF and TF 1500 in one place. It is written for owners, prospective owners and enthusiasts, and it is free to read.

It is a personal project, not a commercial operation. There is no advertising and no sponsorship. Every page is written and maintained by one person — an owner of a 1954 MG TF 1500 who wanted the resource they wished had existed when they first started researching the marque.

Who maintains this

The archive is written by Nathan Devonshire, an independent classic-car enthusiast and home restorer based in North Yorkshire, England. He owns and works on a 1954 MG TF 1500 alongside several other classic British cars. The archive exists because most online T-Series references are poorly maintained, contradictory or plainly inaccurate — and he wanted a properly researched one, cross-checked against factory literature and the marque registers.

The first-hand ownership is not incidental. The featured car, WSU 141, is his own TF 1500 — a UK home-market car he has stripped, diagnosed and rebuilt over several seasons. The car has been driven, faulted, fixed and driven again; the technical articles on this site are written from that direct experience, not from re-summarising other websites.

Hands-on work covers the areas the archive documents most heavily: SU carburettor tuning and balancing, Lucas ignition and charging (distributor, coil, RB106/2 control box), engine set-up on the XPEG, cooling-system diagnosis and ash-frame / body checks. Where a job has been beyond a home workshop — most recently a full professional health-check that traced an overcharging fault and rich running back to root causes — the results are written up here as case studies rather than paraphrased from elsewhere.

The MG T-Series Archive is an independent, one-person project, researched and written by Nathan Devonshire.

Our approach to accuracy

Every fact on this site is checked against multiple sources: factory literature, period workshop manuals, the MG Car Club T Register, respected marque authors, and — where possible — the cars themselves. Where sources disagree, the site says so explicitly rather than silently picking one. Enthusiast archives that quietly resolve conflicts without saying how tend to propagate errors; that is the failure mode this project is trying to avoid.

The archive tries hard to be right, but it is not infallible. If you spot an error — a wrong figure, a misattributed photograph, a claim that doesn't match your own car or paperwork — please get in touch. Corrections are the single most valuable contribution anyone can make.

What this site is not

This is enthusiast guidance, not professional mechanical, financial or legal advice. Before buying, restoring or making significant mechanical decisions, consult a marque specialist and talk to the MG Car Club T Register. Nothing here should be relied on as a substitute for expert inspection.

Resources

• MG Car Club T Register — the marque-specific register for T-Types, publisher of the factory production records lookup.
• MG Owners' Club — the largest one-marque club in the world, with technical advice, spares and events.
• Look up your car's factory record — on this site, guidance on the T Register production records tool.

My other classic-car resources

This archive is one of a small set of independent single-model references maintained by the same enthusiast — each dedicated to a classic car he owns and works on, and each built to the same accuracy-first standard as this one.

• AC Aceca (acaceca.com) — the definitive reference for the AC Aceca and its Bristol engine.
• Triumph Stag (triumphstag.org) — the definitive reference for the Triumph Stag and its V8.

Get in touch

Corrections, suggestions, missing sources, offers of photographs or documents — all welcome. Please use the form below.