Thinking out of the box

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Like many other specific groups, clubs and alliances, our little motoring world contains a fountain of terms and abbreviations. Two favourites here are 'TLC' for tender loving care and 'CKD' for completely knocked down. In a motoring company everyone will know you are talking about crated up vehicles, ready to be shipped off to anywhere in the world – from the UK to the USA in specific. We don’t know who came up first with the idea for easy transport before assembly, but MG certainly mastered it in the 1950s and 1960s. Starting with the TD (here), they’d made their crates more and more compact with the MGA (clever packaging of chassis’ here and in the beautiful colour picture above), while by the time the 1960s Midget arrived, complete cars were folded up in crates (here). Do they still do that today?

(Words and archive picture Jeroen Booij)

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