Peter,
Interesting question. Morgans started off as 3-wheeled cars and the first
4-wheeled Morgan didn't see the light of day until ~1936. The hood (bonnet)
of the early Morgan (I'm looking at a replicated advertisement on page 71 of
Bowden's "Morgan, first and last of the real sports cars.") looks very much
like later models: only a central hinge running along the centre of the hood
(bonnet).
The MG TA also appeared around 1936 but looked a lot like the earlier PA
series and has a more angular hood (bonnet) than the Morgan. From what I
can tell, the lower (vertical) side of the hood was hinged to the upper
(horizontal part). The TC, TD, and TF had the same arrangement.
No doubt both the Morgan and the MG T series looked a lot like other cars of
that era and the designers most likely took styling cues from each other.
If you go back even further, the hoods of 3-wheeled Morgans look a bit like
some earlier MGs, or vice versa.
Chuck Vandergraaf
'52 +4
Pinawa, MB
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> From: Peter Windhorst[SMTP:Peter.Windhorst@kp.org]
> Reply To: Peter Windhorst
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: morgans; mg-t
> Subject: Morgans and MG Ts
>
> Let me ripple the pond a bit by asking, in all sincerity and naiveté,
> about the origins of the Morgan body style. Is it simply a copy of the MG
> T-series or does it claim some independent provenance (or is it the other
> way around, Morgan first)? (It would be an added bonus if the formidable
> Mrs. Simpson of the Morgan Sports Car Club fielded this question.)
>
> Peter Windhorst
> Menlo Park, California
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