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LONDON — The theory is that
MG sports car drivers, barreling
down the highway at full throttle, are
really mild-mannered everyday folk
when not behind the wheels of their
saucy vehicles.
Tbe notion was badly battered re
cently when several thousand MG
owners angrily demonstrated in
London against plans to end produc
tion of the famous little automobile.
Weekend demonstrations are a
tradition in Britain. Usually expatri
ate Asians or Africans complain ab
out developments in the homeland.
But a mass march on behalf of a
sports car, even one that enraptured
motorists the world over, was as
much a first as the MG when it
appeared in an Oxford show room on
Aug. 11, 1923.
Owners from Clark Gable to
Prince Philip — worrying Bucking
ham Palace as he careened around
London with the future Queen of
England at his side — loved it.
In these fuel-hungry days, there
may never be again be so devoted a
union of motor car and motorist even
though the MG never was the easiest
car to drive.
The marchers in the London de
monstration, clumping awkwardly
along like dismounted cowboys,
planned to drive a couple of
thousand MGs to the offices of Brit
ish Ley land with 12,500 signatures
on a petition urging reconsideration
of the firm’s decision to end produc
tion of the car next year.
Police made them park and walk
— the final indignity — behind a
dozen token MGs of varying periods.
Instead of massed MG horns blar
ing defiance, there was only a brave
but weak chorus of honks that sound
ed mor^ like taps. And despite
homemade banners and chants of
“Save the MG,” everyone knew
British Leyland had bigger worries
on its mind. The company is desper
ately in need of financing, and may
have to fire thousands of employees.
The MG, alas, can’t help. Its epi
taph may be: “It made people happy
but didn’t make money.”
Unless there is a reprieve, the MG
story will end in September 1980.
It began soon after 1920 with a
designer named Cecil Kimber who
worked for Morris Garages (hence
the MG). His idea for a sporty runab
out almost died at birth.
Kimber’s boss, William Morris,
later Lord Nuffield, was an auto
mobile magnate more interested in
sales than individuality and not hap
py about a handmade car that did not
use parts interchangeable with his
mass-produced vehicles.
Against his opposition, the won
der is that the MG survived at all.
But dedicated craftsmen at the little
MG plant at Abingdon turned out a
classic series of cars for the young
and the young at heart including the
first car of its class to break 100 miles
an hour in 1931.
American servicemen in Europe
after the war started the MG rage in
the United States which became and
remains its best overseas market.
They shipped the car home in vast
quantities. This, said F. Wilson
McComb, historian of the MG, even
though “it made not the slightest
concession to the requirements of
other countries, had no heater, no
bumpers, could not be bought with
lefthand drive, scarcely anyone
knew how to service or even main
tain it, and comparatively few really
knew how to drive it.”
MG found it could sell 10 abroad
for everyone sold domestically.
McComb claims the MG “trans
formed American motor racing from
a little known professional sport to an
activity within everybody’s reach,
introduced the pleasures of sports
car ownership to a land that had nev
er known them before and blazed
the trail for a multitude of imported
cars.”
Owners of the Stutz Bearcat will
doubtless dispute some of that.
Former Nazi SS officers charged
with WWII death camp atrocities
United Press International
COLOGNE, West Germany — A
former deputy SS commander in
France refused Wednesday to
answer charges he helped send some
tZl t0 the NaZiS Au ' to the liazi death camp at Auschwitz
where most of them perished.
charges were “inconcrete and ambi
guous.”
Lischka, Ernst Heinrichson and
Herbert Hagen are accused of de
porting at least 73,000 French Jews
schwitz death camp.
Kurt Lischka, 70, sat silently in
the Cologne courtroom where he is
standing trial as his lawyer said the
Lischka is the only one of the de
fendants refusing to speak in court.
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A special automobile always has its
problems, but the MG did not run
into real trouble until the Ralph
Nader-inspired Safety Act of 1966.
To meet its demands the MG had to
make concessions.
Worse came in 1968 when the MG
was merged with Leyland.
British Leyland, as it became
known, needed profits, not prestige.
It decided to retire the famous octa
gon symbol of the MG and concen
trate on the Triumph sports car, a car
anyone could drive.
That year British Leyland stopped
all MG exports except to the United
States where the MGB model had
achieved great popularity since its
introduction in 1962.
The MG’s demise was announced
this September, ironically just after
Golden Jubilee celebrations of the
MG Car Company.
“We lose 900 sterling ($1,980) on
every MGB we sell in the United
States,” said a spokesman for Ley-
land. “It’s uneconomical and we
need the facilities at Abingdon. It’s
as simple as that.
“Our loss runs into millions of dol
lars and the rising strength of the
pound hurts, too. If we were to
charge an economic price, we would
simply price the MG out of its
market.
“Sales have been static. We sold
12,763 in the first seven months of
this year compared to 12,817 last
year. On the other hand we are sell
ing Triumphs at the rate if 35,000 a
year.”
Those who consider the MGB a
way of life are not giving up
The MG Owners Chib, witt
ches in the U.S. and other cons
offered to raise $1 million aji r , ltor sa j t j \
keep production going
Americans and Canadians! ration divis
with Leyland but were
sion to stop production was in
able at this time, although (lie
woud be preserved in the hop;
future renaissance.
“We’re not going to takethii
down,” said Martin Bentley,
ecutive of the 11,0(X) strong ME
Owner’s Club. JohnThomley
man of the club, predicted E: ; e arch We
Leyland’s sales would suffer
United States.
“They’re kidding themsen
they think Jaguars and Triumph
take the place of the MG,”
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
A sudden government shakeup
by the dictator of Haiti has
.brought piilitary officers and
loyalists from the feared old re
gime back into key ministerial
posts.
President-for-life Jean Claude
Duvalier, 28, who assumed pow
er in 1971 after his father’s death,
dismissed eight of his 14 Cabinet
members late Tuesday in the
second such shakeup this year in
the Caribbean island nation.
No reason was given for the
reshuffle, which included the
addition of generals to the
Cabinet for the first time, but it
came four days after a meeting of
the Haitian Human Rights
League was violently broken up,
sparking protests from four fore
ign embassies, including the Un
ited States.
Embassy personnel from the
United States, France, Canada
and West Germany — all major
aid donors to Haiti — and several
Haitians were injured in the inci
dent, some seriously.
In a broadcast over the official
Radio Nationale, Duvalier “de
plored” the incident. The gov
ernment also denied allegatu
the meeting was broken upl
outgrowth of his father’s one-
private terror army. f
The most unusual change
the appointment of Gen. Cli
Raymond to the post of ini jjL
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versity wi
and national defense
There have previously beea
generals in the Cabinet.
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