MG Car Club

The club headquarters is in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and is located adjacent to the now defunct MG factory site where cars were produced between 1930 - 1980.

The first club meeting took place on 12 October 1930, at the Roebuck Hotel near Stevenage, with over thirty MG cars and their owners coming together.

Car Club, and its inaugural meeting at the "Roebuck," Broadwater, was held within a couple of miles of my house.

Car Club, a position he has fulfilled so extremely successfully for the past eight years, on account of increasingly heavy R.A.F.

The club was greatly strengthened by the initiation of a magazine circulated to all members, Safety Fast, compiled by F. Wilson McComb.

During the period 1960-1967 the South East Centre organised competitive events at the Firle Hill Climb in Sussex.

In 1966 The Motor reported: "The MG Car Club recently enrolled its 5,000th home member.

The club faced an uncertain future but Gordon Cobban, then Chairman of the South East Centre, and others worked hard to not only plan a safe financial basis for continuing but to license the club name (and that of Safety Fast) from BL.

Initially the club moved into rented offices in Abingdon but quickly became somewhat nomadic being based in Boston, Studley and Radley.

In April 1988 a Building Appeal Fund was set up in order to raise money for the acquisition of a home for the club.

By mid-1989, this resulted, thanks to the generosity of many club members and other benefactors, in the purchase of 11 & 12 Cemetery Road, a detached property right next to the original gate of the MG factory.

Many donations in cash and in kind were vital to the renovation of the premises as suitable offices for the club, completed in 1990.

The podcast, presented by the club's PR officer Wayne Scott quickly gained popularity and now attracts many thousands of listeners from around the world who download the weekly episodes to hear the latest news and interviews from the world of MG.