We Just Read: Car enthusiasts have found rare MG Rover prototypes left outside the car maker’s former plant.
Tom Cowling was among enthusiasts who expressed dismay online at seeing the “rarest cars” the firm made parked on grounds outside the old factory in Longbridge, Birmingham.
MG said it was arranging for some prototypes to go to the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire.
Mr Cowling travelled to the site from his Sheffield home after hearing some prototypes, which are early versions of a vehicle, were still there and filmed them for a video on social media.
He told followers they needed to be preserved.
“These are real pieces of British motoring history and need to be documented and saved,” he said.
MG said a “selection of prototypes” were being stored at its facility in Longbridge and some of these had been temporarily moved outside while a building was being refurbished.
Read article in full on the BBC News.
Image: Tom Cowling
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