About The T Register

Founded in 1963, the T Register has grown considerably over the last forty years. At present we hold details of over 11000 'T'-types, both in the U.K. and in most other parts of the world. The original aims of recording details of cars and providing a means of communication and competition between owners, remain unchanged, helping members to enjoy using their cars in the manner that Cecil Kimber and the designers at Abingdon intended.

The Register & Committee

The main communication channels of the Register are the T Register website, the T Register quarterly magazine T Register News, and the space which the Register gets allocated in Safety Fast!, the monthly magazine of the MG Car Club. This space allocation amounts to a half page for the T-Type notes for nine issues during the year and four pages for the T-Type Newsletter for three issues during the year. T Register News is available primarily in pdf format, downloadable from this website, although a limited number of hard copies are also sent out. Please see the T Register News section of this website for further details.

If you have any problems, ideas or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact any of the Committee or their portfolio associates - they are all listed with their particular responsibilities, both in T Register News and in the Committee page on this web site. We depend on your support for all the activities organised, either with or without your car, and more volunteers to help out are always needed.

The T Register maintains a set of registers, one each for TA. TB, TC, TD, TF and for Specials powered by MPJG/XPAG engines and/or based on T Type running gear. Each has a Registrar responsible for maintaining that register. The list of Registrars and their contact details can be found on the Committee page here.

Each register holds details of all the cars of that type known to the T Register, including car details (chassis number, licence number, engine number, etc), contact details for the owner and a brief history. The minimum requirement for inclusion is chassis and/or licence number. Many register entries are very old and no longer reliable. Some cars on the register are known to have been scrapped, and the whereabouts of others are uncertain. Any more recent information you can provide on a car is welcomed.

A copy of each register (other than the Specials register) is held online that contains a subset of the information held for every car known to the T Register. This subset is indexed by chassis number and includes licence number, engine number, colour, and country where it is kept. The online copy can be searched here. You can search on either chassis or licence number. More detail on the search criteria can be found here.

The T Register has a number of trophies, presented over the years by enthusiasts and supporters. Some are specifically for those who compete – particularly T Racing – and are presented each year at a Dinner held by the T Racers.

Continuing in the spirit of the traditions set in the 1950s by such drivers as Phil Hill, Dick Jacobs, Pat Moss and many others, T-Type competition is today one of the most exciting spectacles at any race meeting, with grids being shared with MGAs and even more exotic MMM machinery, an annual calendar of some 20+ events, including circuit racing, hill climbs and sprints (the latter two as part of the Luffield Championship), is organised; cars may be entered in one of three classes, ranging from road-going, through modified to full race - see the T Competition page for full details.

If you have a technical problem, our technical representatives will be pleased to help. We have accumulated a vast fund of data and information upon which to draw, based on the experience and knowledge of experts and enthusiasts over many years. The cars are split into TA, TB, TC, TD & TF groupings - write to the appropriate Technical Rep. enclosing a s.a.e. or, better still, if he is on e-mail, contact him via this medium. There is a good chance that the problem you encounter has been experienced by others and a solution worked out. Additionally, the Register organises an annual technical seminar entitled "Rebuild". Started many years ago by us, and much copied by others since, this one-day meeting features lectures and practical demonstrations of various aspects of rebuilding 'T'-types, given by leading experts in the field of 'T'-type restoration. Usually held in March, "Rebuild" is the first Register event every year, and a marvellous opportunity to ge t your car back on the road after hibernation, or to fire up your enthusiasm for the restoration work still needed.

The T Register does not hold stocks of parts, but we will endeavour to put members in touch with others who may have surplus parts. However, we should warn you that the 'good old days' are no longer with us, and second-hand spares are becoming increasingly difficult to find. This probably explains why the first part of Safety Fast! to be read by every M.G. enthusiast, is the Classified Spares For Sale section. Nowadays, there are several professional parts suppliers, all of whom carry large stocks of new (remanufactured) parts to meet every need. Prices and availability vary considerably, so arm yourself with a catalogue from each of them!

Possession of a workshop manual (or in the case of the TC the 'brown book' or factory Instruction Manual) is a must for the owner of a car such as the 'T'-type, even if you do not intend to carry out more than minor servicing; information from this will go a long way towards increasing your knowledge and enjoyment of ownership of your 'T'-type. Facsimile reprints of the official workshop manuals are available on the Regalia page at discount prices (at least 10% or more in some cases). The Register also has a range of regalia for T types. Roger Furneaux (see committee details) can supply a reproduction of the Factory Guarantee sheet, showing the chassis number, original engine number and the date your car was built.