{"id":30888,"date":"2023-06-07T22:06:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30888"},"modified":"2023-06-07T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:06:05","slug":"mg-celebrates-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30888","title":{"rendered":"MG Celebrates 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMG cars have been a part of British motoring for 100 years, and Abingdon played a big role in the marque&#8217;s history. Today, a number of MG Vintage and MG Triple M cars were on display in Abingdon Market Place as part of the MG100 celebrations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe MG marque was founded in 1923 by Cecil Kimber. The first MG car, the MG Midget, was produced in 1924. MGs were built in Abingdon from 1928 to 1980. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a larger event for all MGs at Silverstone from 10th &#8211; 11th June.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the MG100 celebrations please visit the MGCC website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgcc.co.uk\/mg100\/\">www.mgcc.co.uk\/mg100\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Martin Wackenier for the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MG cars have been a part of British motoring for 100 years, and Abingdon played a big role in the marque&#8217;s history. Today, a number of MG Vintage and MG Triple M cars were on display in Abingdon Market Place as part of the MG100 celebrations. The MG marque was founded in 1923 by Cecil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}