BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

* 2005: Land Rover ' founder ' Rover, collapses under the ownership of MG Rover Group

Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group

* Phoenix Venture Holdings, owner of the MG Rover Group

* MG SV, a sports car made by MG Rover

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After an interval of barely one year, the MG marque was revived again, this time on the MG RV8 – an updated MGB Roadster with a Rover V8 engine, which was produced in low volumes.

The MG marque passed, along with the Rover marque, to the MG Rover group in May 2000, when BMW " broke up " the Rover Group.

However, all production ceased in April 2005 when MG Rover went into administration.

The assets of MG Rover were bought by Chinese carmaker Nanjing Automobile in July 2005 ( subsequently bought by SAIC in December 2007 ), who now operate a UK subsidiary, MG Motor.

In 1980 Aston-Martin had plans, which did not materialise, to buy MG, which they would have utilised as a sister marque, probably building smaller sports cars.

The degree of muscle weakness involved in MG varies greatly among patients, ranging from a localized form that is limited to eye muscles ( ocular myasthenia ), to a severe and generalized form in which many muscles-sometimes including those that control breathing-are affected.

In single fiber electromyography ( SFEMG ), which is considered to be the most sensitive ( although not the most specific ) test for MG, a thin needle electrode is inserted into different areas of a particular muscle to record the action potentials from several samplings of different individual muscle fibers.

About 10 % of MG patients are found to have tumors in their thymus glands, in which case a thymectomy is a very effective treatment with long-term remission.

When his son Richard's first boy Elliot was born, he tried to give him an MG 08 machine gun, which his daughter-in-law refused to accept.

One of the first weapons designed for this role was the Madsen machine gun, which, though having a limited magazine capacity, was still more than that of the typical infantry rifle, and it gave the infantry a base of fire weapon that was more suited to maneuver warfare than the bulkier machine guns of the period, such as the MG 08.

There are also specific kart tire manufacturers, which include MG, MOJO, and Vega.

The line remained open for freight until 1984, including serving the MG car factory, which opened in 1929 and closed in October 1980 as part of a British Leyland rationalisation plan.

After the war, the MG factory continued to churn out increasing volumes of popular sports car which were available at competitive prices.

The E. 5 / 15 Fokker M. 5K / MG Eindecker aircraft of Leutnant Kurt Wintgens, which started the period of the " Fokker Scourge " on July 1, 1915.

The MG Car Company got its name from Morris Garages, a dealer of Morris cars in Oxford which began producing its own customised versions to the designs of Cecil Kimber, who had joined the company as its sales manager in 1921.

The explanation may lie in the distinction between the MG business and the company of that name which may have come to own it later.

The first car which can be described as a new MG, rather than a modified Morris was the MG 18 / 80 of 1928 which had a purpose designed chassis and the first appearance of the traditional vertical MG grille.

Beginning before and continuing after World War II, MG produced a line of cars known as the T-Series Midgets which, post-war, were exported worldwide, achieving better than expected success.

These included the MG TC, MG TD, and MG TF, all of which were based on the pre-war MG TB, with various degrees of updating.

* German Maschinengewehr 34 or MG 34: air-cooled, belt-fed and had the ability to be mounted on a variety of fixtures and employed in several different roles.

Just a decade earlier, a whole host of similar models — notably the MG B, Triumph TR7, Triumph Spitfire and Fiat Spider — had been available.

MG Antoine Balland and 13, 000 troops demonstrated in the centre until the other columns had succeeded in their mission.

In 2006, it was reported that an initiative called Project Kimber, led by David James, had entered talks with Nanjing to buy the MG brand in order to produce a range of sports cars based on the discontinued Smart Roadster design by DaimlerChrysler.

High performance Rover Metro, 200 and 400 GTi models had gone on sale in late 1989 and throughout 1990 as the MG version of the Metro was discontinued in 1990 and the versions of the Maestro and Montego were axed in 1991.

The MG Rover Group purchased Qvale, which had taken over development of the De Tomaso Bigua.

* He 111 H-6: Torpedo bomber, could carry two LT F5b torpedoes externally, powered by Jumo 211F-1 engines, had six MG 15s and one MG FF cannon in forward gondola.

As of July 2008, the Bear Battalion had commissioned 1, 721 Army officers including ten General Officers: LTG Neal T. Jaco, LTG John E. Miller, MG Fred F. Marty, MG Robert L. Gordon, MG Robert F. Pennycuick, MG David E. White, MG Jarrett J. Robertson, BG William A.

The prototypes had the following characteristics: weight of 25 – 27 tons ( depending on an aluminum or steel hull ); 425 HP diesel engine ; a 2-man turret with a 20 mm gun & 7. 62 mm MG ; crew of three plus nine infantry equipped with firing ports ; a built-in toilet ; armor that was proof against Soviet 14. 5 mm MG fire beyond a certain range ; a collective and overpressure CBR system ; amphibious.

The Swiss and Austrian militaries had both licensed and produced the MG 30 from Rheinmetall shortly after patent.

All magazine-feed MG 34s had been withdrawn from infantry use by 1941, with some remaining in use on armoured personnel carriers.

The gun was sometimes called " Spandau " by British troops from the manufacturer's plates noting the district of Berlin where some were produced, much like the Germans ' own World War I MG 08 had been nicknamed.

The barrel had polygonal rifling and was lighter than the MG 34's and heated more quickly, but could be replaced in seconds by an experienced gunner.

Post-Morris cars to have been built at Cowley include the Austin / MG Maestro, Austin / MG Montego, Rover 600, Rover 800 and ( for a short time ) the Rover 75.

The Rover brand, which had been retained by BMW and licensed to MG Rover, was sold to Ford, which had bought Land Rover from BMW in 2000.

As many as 25, 000 jobs were reported to have been lost in related supply industries, meaning that the total number of job losses brought on by MG Rover's collapse was somewhere in the region of 30, 000.

The Mini was only built under temporary licence during the first five months of MG Rover's existence, and since the 1980s had only been built in limited numbers.

The replacement for the MG F, the MG TF sports car was, inevitably, a relatively low-volume product, but it had consistently been the most popular car in its sector since its 1995 launch.

The MG badge-engineering project ( first implemented by Austin Rover in 1982 ) was ended in 1991 despite some reasonable success for its Maestro and Montego ranges ( the MG Metro had been discontinued after the facelift in 1990 ).

An MG version of the car was introduced in May 1961 as, ' the new Midget ,' reviving a model name which had been a great success for the MG Car Company in the 1930s.

The Sprite ( and its MG Midget sibling ) have been successful club level race cars since their launch and continue to race in various events to this day.

The event was jointly organised and promoted by the UK's Midget and Sprite Club, Healey Drivers Club, MG Owners Club, Austin Healey Club and MG Car Clubthe first time an event of this size has been supported by all of the marque-representing clubs.

In June 2007, Nanjing and Healey Automobile Consultants / HFI Automotive signed a collaborative agreement that aims to recreate the Austin Healey and Healey marquees alongside NAC's MG. No timeline has been given as to when the Healey and Austin-Healey brands will return, although MG will be back on the market in China and the UK by the year's end.

The rights to the design of the Rover 75 cars and the MG Group ( which had formerly been MG Rover ) were purchased by a Chinese firm, Nanjing Automobile.

His Birmingham Northfield constituency has long been dominated by the local car manufacturer MG Rover, which went into administration after negotiations with Chinese car manufacturer Shanghai Automotive failed in April 2005.

It was initially sold as an Austin and a MG. Later models have sometimes been referred to as the Rover Maestro, but the model never wore the Rover badge.

Following publication of a government report into the failure of MG Rover, Towers-along with the other directors of Phoenix-have been disqualified from holding any company office in the United Kingdom or have undertaken not to do so.

Since the collapse of MG Rover in 2005 part of the site has been redeveloped for commercial and residential usage.