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rick_ingram

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Anyone else notice that the MG Forum is currently on page number 251 - a rather significant number at the Abingdon assembly plant?!

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Bruce74B said:
OK...I'll bite...why? besides, mine says 419 pages ???
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Me too! But mine says 210?
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Mine does say 251 and ya gotta know the significance. Nice one.
 
And when it comes back around to 101, it may be even more (or less depending on your purity quotient) important!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grouphug.gif
 
It depends on how many topics per page you have set in your preferences. I have 30 per page and see 210 pages total.
 
251 was the telephone number to the Abingdon Assembly Plant.

251 was also the beginning car number of each production run at Abingdon.
 
and 101 will be the production prefix for the first TF's out of Longbridge as their phone number also ends in 101.
Courtesy of MGPOWER "The first MG TF built will carry a 0101 VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) suffix, following an MG tradition that has used the last three numbers of the company’s telephone number - Longbridge is 0121 475 2101. Abingdon MGs from 1930 were started at 0251 (Abingdon 251), with MG Magnette ZAs and TF Midgets using a 0501 VIN following the company’s BMC Headquarters in Birmingham having the 1501 telephone number."

Actually it's not Longbridge anymore, it's Nanking. Does anyone know if they continued the tradition. Sort of moot I suppose, but in the interest of accuracy it matters.
 
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