Happy Birthday to The MG Car Club

TODAY marks the 84th birthday of the MG Car Club! On the 12th of October 1930 the first meeting of the club took place at the Roebuck Hotel near Stevenage, with over 30 MGs and their owners coming together.

Having previously written a letter to the popular magazine ‘The Light Car’, questioning: “What about an MG Car Club?” Roy Marsh attended, as did John Thornley, who was elected Secretary of the new Club that day.

A committee was formed and a date in November agreed for the next meeting, at which 50 MGs turned up for a run and the MG Car Club was well under way.

By January 1931 John Thornley was happy to report that the Club was nearing nearly 200 members. Today the Car Club has almost 40,000 members worldwide and continues to grow from strength to strength!