MG Magnette

MG Magnette is the name of several car models that offered the British carmaker MG from 1932 to 1936 and then again from 1953 to 1968.

1932-1936

The first Magnette was a touring car, a two-door sedan or a roadster in the lower middle class, the MG 1932 brought out.

The MG Magnette K1 sedan, a model, has a six-cylinder in-line engines with 1087 cc and 39 hp ( 29 kW). The simultaneously presented Touring Car and Roadster ( model b ) have 2 more bhp (41 bhp / 30 kW). In addition, the sedan and the Roadster as a model d with a larger engine ( 1286 cc, 48.5 bhp / 35.5 kW) are available.

The MG Magnette is K2 ( b model) offered in parallel as a Tourer and Roadster with the smaller engine and as a sedan and a roadster with the larger engine (model d).

The models K1 and K2 were set in 1935.

In 1933, another roadster, the MG Magnette K3 supercharged it. Its supercharged supercharged six-cylinder in-line engine with 1087 cc develops 120 bhp (88 kW). A year later he was gone.

1934 launched one another sedan, the MG KN Magnette. He has again ³ the larger engine with 1286 cm, but 56 bhp makes (41 kW). Also, this vehicle was manufactured for only one year.

In the same year the MG Magnette NA appeared as a Tourer, Roadster and Coupe. It is equipped with the engine of the model CN and produced until 1936.

From the Roadster, there are only 1934 a further model, the MG Magnette NE. Its engine of the same displacement as the aforementioned models developed 68 bhp (50 kW).

1953-1959

The name Magnette emerged only after the Second World War again: In 1953, a four-door midsize sedan with the MG Magnette was produced ZA Series. The form divides the Magnette with the Wolseley 4/44. Although the Magnette is created on the drawing board first, the Wolseley is first presented. Magnette is powered by the new four-cylinder B- series engine with a displacement of 1489 cc, which makes 60 bhp (44 kW) and the car accelerated to 128 km / h. In 1956 this model is revised and appears as MG Magnette ZB Series, or Wolseley 15 /50. The engine now develops 68 bhp (50 kW) and gives the car a top speed of 132 km / h

1959-1968

In 1959 the MG Magnette Mark III (BMC ADO9 ), the new body of the Austin A55 Cambridge. The engine has only 66.5 bhp ( 49 kW ); the top speed is 140 km / h From 1961 onwards, is available for the revised MG Magnette Mark IV (BMC ADO38 ) of the four-cylinder engine of the Austin A60 with 1622 cc and 68 hp ( 50 kW).

1968 Magnette was finally set without successors.

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• David Culshaw and Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895-1975, Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6