Downloadables

Safety Fast Newsletters

A full back catalogue of Newsletters scanned from Safety Fast, from the first in 1992, to date.

MG YT Factory Production Records ~ recreated

 (318kb)  A PDF file by David Pelham (updated 3 January 2007).

2007 wall Calendar
(897 kb).

The MG Y Type Buyer's Guide

A miscellany of resources and articles to help you decide

Registrar's report - March 2007

 by Jack Murray.

MG Y Type Screensaver

 (2.7 MB).

MG YT Screensaver

(3.12mb)

5 Speed YB Conversion

(241kb) A PDF by Tony Vernall.

MG Icon and instructions

for creating a desktop shortcut to the website.  You may need both files.

MG Engine History

 (330kb) A PDF file by Neil Cairns.

MG Y Ledgers

(310kb) A PDF file by Neil Cairns of guarantee plates, chassis numbers and engine numbers, where this information is known

Post War M.G. Saloon cars 1947 - 1999

(4.5mb including colour pictures) by Neil Cairns.

Miscellany

Luggage straps for the MG Y

Details on the luggage straps that were available as a period optional extra.

 Stories from the Rear view mirror

Historical research on individual cars by their owners.

Models of the MG Y Type

Details of models of the MG Y Type

Historical Timeline

of Y history events and contemporary world news

Sister Cars to the MG Y Type

by Neil Cairns

The MG Y Type Tool Kit

by Jeremy Havard

Terry Ciantar's original tool kit

Photographs by Terry Ciantar

Trivia and puzzles

Trivia Quiz 1.

Test your skill and knowledge of the Y Type.

Trivia Quiz 2

how well do you know your Y Type?

Picture Puzzle No 1

Picture Puzzle No 2

Picture Puzzle No 3

Older Items to catch up on

Registrar's report - March 2006

 by Jack Murray.

2006 wall Calendar

(845 kb).

Registrar's report - March 2005

 by Jack Murray.

2005 wall Calendar

(1.29 MB).

Registrar's report - March 2004

 by Jack Murray.

2004 wall Calendar

(1.369 MB).

Registrar's report - March 2003

 by Jack Murray.

2003 wall Calendar

 (1.518 MB).

28 June 2007

The MG Car Club Y Type Register have produced a limited edition of 60th Anniversary Mugs which are now available from the Regalia Page and can be ordered using the current Sales sheet (A4 format or letter format).  These are a limited edition and I am informed there are less than 60 left!  Order now to avoid disappointment!

Webmaster

27 June 2007

Richard Prior has sent in a report on the Western Australia 60th anniversary celebrations and this has been added to the special Anniversary page.

Webmaster

26 June 2007

Andrew Coulson has provided his usual amusing sideways look at the Silverstone International Meeting and the Y Register's participation.  A link has been put on the Events page too.

Matt Sanders had added another Y to his collection with Y 6833 so welcome to Ys on Parade.

Webmaster

25 June 2007

If you have downloaded the Engine Reassembly Torque Settings and Check List we published earlier this month (3 June 2007), please download it again as we have noticed and corrected some inconsistencies. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Webmaster

21 June 2007

Please welcome Peter Sharp with his latest acquisition YB 1100 to  Ys on Parade.  Peter's car makes yet another sequenced pair with YB 1101.  At this rate we will soon be posting the 100th YB too!  Keep them coming.

Webmaster

20 June 2007

Today, please welcome Nick Baker with YB 1023 to  Ys on Parade.  If the name is familiar, it may be because of his father, Robert Baker, who owns Y 1090: it is clearly a family thing!  Please also welcome David Ward with YT 3915 to  Ys on Parade.  David's car is the 100th YT on the website and gives us a full 1/3rd of all known YTs!!  Thank you both Nick and David for sharing your cars with us.

Webmaster

18 June 2007

Well, we now have enough Ys on the website for one a day ... even in a leap year!  Today, please welcome Loene Fuller with YT 3871, and Robert Pringle with Y 4770 to  Ys on Parade.  I guess the next milestone will be the posting of the 100th YT on the web!

Webmaster

16 June 2007

The YBs are piling in: today please welcome Brian Hough and YB 1506 to Ys on Parade.  With one more car on the Parade, and we will have365 cars on the site - enough to keep you busy looking at one a day for a year - by which time of course we would have more for you to look at too!

Webmaster

15 June 2007

Today, please welcome Eric Platt and YB 1281 to Ys on Parade.

A new advertisement has been added to the Reprinted Advertisements page from 1953.

The mid-month Reprinted Article is from an unknown publication and date but is appropriately entitled "The New 1 1/4 litre".

Finally, if you have been having problems downloading the video clip files from either the UK 60th Anniversary Spring Run, or from Y's on Film (for either Le Petit Soldat, or Sweeny 2), the video codecs have been revised to a more friendly windows standard so you should now be able to download and enjoy these files: apologies for any inconvenience in getting these sorted out.

Webmaster

8 June 2007

Please welcome Maurie Worboys and YT 4171 to Ys on Parade.

Webmaster

3 June 2007

Taking an engine apart is easy - putting it back together correctly and ensuring that you have checked everything is harder. Dave DuBois recently sent in a quick check list of torque settings and checks to be carried out on rebuilding an XPAG engine. This has been added to both the Hints and Tips page, and the Technical Data page.

Webmaster

1 June 2007

The Picture of the Month this month is from the Maitland Sixtieth Anniversary (not previously seen but now added) and shows Tony Slattery's YT with Tony in the driver's seat. Next to him is Steve Brompton and Alf Luckman is leaning on the door with his car is in the foreground.

Two Reprinted Articles have been added this month. The first is from The Modern Motorman, January 1950, and the second from Totally T  Type following up on some of the recent BBS threads and covers fitting a new fuel sender unit.  This brings our library total of reprinted articles to 100!

Graham Loader has also sent in a copy of the special commemorative poster that was given to all Y participants on the MG Car Club of South Australia tour to mark the 60th Anniversary.  This has been uploaded now to the special page of photographs and reports.

Please also welcome John Coburn, the new owner of Y 3930, to Ys on Parade.

Andrew Coulson informed me of a trip that he, and a small band of brother Y owners will be making to the Emerald Isle of Ireland later this month too: we wish them well and no doubt will see some photos later too.

Webmaster

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