In 1924, carmaker MG was founded and moved its business alongside the Pavlova Leather Factory in 1929.

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.

BMW sold the business in 2000 and the MG marque passed to the MG Rover Group based in Longbridge, Birmingham.

MG Rover was formed from the parts of the former Rover Group volume car production business which BMW sold off in 2000 due to constant losses and a declining market share.

MG Rover took control of the remainder of the former Rover Group volume car business, which was consolidated at the Longbridge plant.

MG Rover's best year for car sales was their first full year of business, in 2001 — when they sold over 170, 000 cars.

The Group initially included the Austin Rover Group car business ( comprising Austin, Rover, Mini and MG marques ), Land Rover Group, Freight Rover vans and Leyland Trucks.

Due to UK regulations that hold the prior owner of a company responsible for all redundancy payments if the said company declares bankruptcy within 3 years of sale, BMW guaranteed that Phoenix Venture Holdings ( initially named MG Rover Holdings ) would have enough money to keep Rover Group in business for at least 3 years following the sale.

It was a key supplier for the largest independent British carmaker-British Motor Corporation, British Leyland, Austin Rover, Rover Group and most recently MG Rover-until the business closed due to financial problems in late 2005.

Wintgens ' aircraft, one of the five Fokker M. 5K / MG production prototype examples of the Eindecker, was armed with a synchronized, air-cooled aviation version of the Parabellum MG14 machine gun.

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.

After World War II, as General Designer of small arms for the Soviet Army, his design subordinates included the Germans Hugo Schmeisser, designer of the StG-44, and Werner Grüner ( of MG 42 fame ) who was a pioneer in sheet metal embossing technology in the 1950s.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

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.

The 355th Fighter Wing was composed of the 355th Operations Group ( 355 OG ), the 355th Maintenance Group ( 355 MG ), the 355th Medical Group ( 355 MDG ), and the 355th Mission Support Group ( 355 MSG ).

The term molten globule ( MG ) was first coined by A. Wada and M Ohgushi in 1983.

Moreover, almost every German squad was equipped with an MG 34 machine gun.

Abingdon was home to the Morland Brewery, whose most famous ale was Old Speckled Hen, named after an early MG car.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, MG was established as one of the most popular brands of sports car in Britain.

But the factory closed in October 1980 on the demise of the ageing but still popular MG MGB range, and was demolished within months.

Old Speckled Hen ale was originally brewed by Morlands of Abingdon to commemorate the MG factory in the town.

's " was meant to stand for " Memphis Group ", not the MG sports car.

Musician and record producer Chips Moman, active in Stax Records when the band was formed, for many years claimed that the band was named after his MG sports car, and only after he left the label did Stax's publicity department declare that “ M. G .” stood for “ Memphis Group ”.

The MG Car Company Limited was a former British sports car manufacturer founded in the 1920s by Cecil Kimber.

Kimber was an employee of William Morris ; MG is from Morris Garages.

Cecil Kimber, head of Morris's own original 1909-founded Morris Garage sales hire and repair operation in Oxford, began building sporting versions of Morris cars in 1924 labelling them MG.

His affinity for sports cars was demonstrated in his personal vehicles: Edsel bought the first MG motorcar imported to the United States.

* Scott Tipton on MG: Part 1 is Tipton's personal remembrance of Gruenwald.

Despite trading as MG Rover Group, the new company's key Rover marque was a property licensed from BMW.

So while it is hard to observe differences in MG and non-escapes, this property can be used to distinguish the two.

He drew criticism from the international media for spending close to R10, 000, 000 over a weekend in South Africa on champagne, property renovations, a black 2004 Bentley Arnage, a cream 2005 Bentley Continental R from MG Rover Cape Town and a 2005 Lamborghini Murcielago, although the properties may soon be forcibly auctioned due to his failure to pay a South African businessman.

SAIC Motor had previously acquired some intellectual property rights from MG Rover, so the Chinese Government merged the two companies together, which resulted in the rebirth of MG as MG Motor UK Ltd.

Some equipment and blueprints were repossessed by Honda, as the Honda's intellectual property was used in some of MG Rover's vehicles, in particular, the Rover 45 and MG ZS which were based on the Honda Domani.

Roger Smith suffered from MG from the mid-60s until his MG went into remission in 1985.

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.

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

The MG Metro continued until 1990, with the Maestro and Montego versions being suspended a year later.

The MG Maestro and MG Montego remained on sale until 1991, when production of these models was pruned back in order for Rover to concentrate on the more modern 200 Series and 400 Series.

The MG 34 was the mainstay of German Army support weapons from the time of its first issue in 1935 until 1942, when it was supplanted by the next generation Maschinengewehr 42 or MG 42.

However, the Germans nevertheless continued widespread production of MG 34s until the end of the war.

It was to be replaced in infantry service by the related MG42, but there were never enough quantities of the new design to go around, and MG 34s soldiered on in all roles until the end of World War II.

Production of the MG 34 was never enough to satisfy any of its users, and while the MG81 was a huge improvement over the earlier MG 30-based MG 15 and MG 17 guns, these guns were used until the end of the war.

It supplemented, and, in some instances, replaced the MG 34 general-purpose machine gun in all branches of the German Armed Forces, though both weapons were manufactured and used until the end of the war.

A number of captured Chauchats were used by German front-line infantrymen in flamethrower units because they had no light machine guns of their own until the portable Maxim MG 08-15 light machine guns were issued to them during early 1917.

The Group was further broken up in 2000, with the Rover and MG marques continuing with the much smaller MG Rover Group until 2005.

Production of the MG Maestro finished in 1991, as Rover had launched GTi versions of the new 200 and 400 models, though the standard Maestro remained in production until December 1994.

The 15 mm MG 151 was found to have lackluster performance as the main gun on Messerschmitt Bf 109 early F-2, and was soon replaced by the 20 mm version to become the standard cannon for the Bf 109F-4 series onwards until it was superseded by the 30 mm MK 108 cannon.

The Rover Group continued production of the MG Metro until 1990 when it was replaced by the Rover Metro GTi.