Anyone want a half built MG?

[86mud]

I was sent this from another forum. A couple of blokes snuck into the now defunked MG factory. Amazing pictures

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php't=9749

Hope the link works

Cheers
Andrew

[FenianEel]

That's awesome, and very sad.....
Although they will live on as MG (Mishchung Guandong) or something similar:(

[Tusker]

Amazing pics those.

This is Longbridge though, that is an ex-Morris or maybe an ex_Austin plant. The proper MGs were built at Abingdon on Thames, & that factory was totally demolished about 10 years ago. Now that was a shame.

Regards
Max P

[86mud]

Was remember when the original "Morris Garages" plant was demolished. My father has never recovered from that. He is a MG fan from way back owning and restoring many MG's including: MGA's, Magnette's, TF's and my favourite an MGCGT...which is the car my father used to teach me how to drive when I was a teenager.

I was under the impression that MGF's and the newer ZT's where built at longbridge.

Cheers
Andrew

[BigJon]

Those are stunning photos. Looks like everyone just got up and left when the closure was anounced. Offices still full of computers, half built cars lying around.

[Utemad]

I love nothing more than to look around old buildings. Particularly military places but any old buildings will do.

Although commercialised I was in heaven when at Port Arthur, Tas and Devonport, NZ.

The only problem is that my wife hates it unless it is a quick in and out of a small place. A bit of a pain really since we generally come across these places while on a trip.

I blew an hour this morning looking at that website and following a few links. Lucky I'm not at work this week :)

[Utemad]

Those are stunning photos. Looks like everyone just got up and left when the closure was anounced. Offices still full of computers, half built cars lying around.

I used to work in Telstra telephone exchanges and there were fully equipped offices in the exchanges that had not been used in many years. You'd swear the office workers had just gone to lunch.

[BigJon]

I used to work in Telstra telephone exchanges and there were fully equipped offices in the exchanges that had not been used in many years. You'd swear the office workers had just gone to lunch.

That sounds like normal Telstra wastage to me :p .

[FenianEel]

I love nothing more than to look around old buildings. Particularly military places but any old buildings will do.


Me too :D

Check this out (a bit outdated)

http://urbex.50megs.com/Abandoned_Desolate_Urban_Exploration/Wacol_Army_Barracks/Wacol_Army_Base_aka_Camp_Columbia.html

There's not much left there now, I had been planning on goign out there one weekend and taking snaps myself, though most of the buildings are gradually becoming less and less as they're being demolished/removed.

It's where I did my recruit course, and I only just found out my Grandfather was stationed there for a bit in WW2!;)

[Phoenix]

THere is a few urban exploration websites about the internet featuring australian places, fascinating websites, and very easy to loose track of time!

That one you posted FE isn't one i've seen before, i;ll have to have a look.

[Utemad]

Check this out (a bit outdated)

http://urbex.50megs.com/Abandoned_Desolate_Urban_Exploration/Wacol_Army_Barracks/Wacol_Army_Base_aka_Camp_Columbia.html

I always wanted to go there but never got around to it. I used to drive past it a few time a week on my way to uni.

I didn't realise it was still in use less than 10 years ago.

I'm going to have to make a point of stopping at more of these local places.

[FenianEel]

I always wanted to go there but never got around to it. I used to drive past it a few time a week on my way to uni.

I didn't realise it was still in use less than 10 years ago.

I'm going to have to make a point of stopping at more of these local places.

I'm still keen for a venture out there - but I fear there's not much left.

[Dinty]

G'day All, Those pix were floating around on the Series 2 club website in the UK about 2 months ago, and I would dare say if you were caught on the premises well s**t happens doesn't it, but the photographer his/her website is full of pix from places he/she shouldn't have been,but good on em anyway cheers Dennis:wasntme:

[Chenz]

Very sad. I used to own a white MG Midget in which I threw my back out quite a few times.

A mate of mine came back from the Yukon where he went hiking with a local guy. After a few days hiking they went to an old abandoned mine which had been decommisioned in the 1920s.

He said the office section looked like the staff had just gone out to lunch with files and papers still on desks and half finished legers with the pens still sitting in the inkwell next to them. I will see if he can send me the photos to put on the forum.

[Utemad]

I'm still keen for a venture out there - but I fear there's not much left.

Last time I drove past there I don't think there was anything left visible from the Ipswich Motorway.

I did my degree at UQ, Gatton and we were asked to help round up the Kangaroos from the base. I was busy but it sounded like it would have been interesting.

I know this has been pasted in other threads here but this is a great site for finding old military buildings.
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/index.htm (http://home.st.net.au/%7Edunn/index.htm)

[Quiggers]

I was sent this from another forum. A couple of blokes snuck into the now defunked MG factory. Amazing pictures

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php't=9749

Hope the link works

Cheers
Andrew


Thank you 86mud. absolutely fascinating... i never knew websites like these existed. I have one of these stories, if you are all interested

We worked in a small building at Camperdown in Sydney, 69 Parramatta Road, from my vague memory. Slightly east was the factory where Studebakers were assembled (cnr Parramatta and Missenden Roads), after Stude, the buidling was a textile place i think.

Abandoned, and with not much to do at work one day, we (about 5 of us) went for a walk, thru all five floors, to the roof. So much stuff still in place, abandoned for years, but as it was left....a very bizarre experience....

I wonder how many thousands of other major manufacturing sites, lay 'as is' but abandoned......

come to think of it, I shot a series of tv commercials at a huge old factory in Leichardt, which seemed to reek of ghosts.....

GQ

[Utemad]

Just two quotes from a USA abandoned car thread on one of these forums. I thought they were funny.

"the Mitsubishi Delica Super Exceed, (Honey Who Shrunk the Vanagon?) (It's a mini mini cube style van)"

"Years ago our rural postal service used those boxy Jeeps, with RHD. Used to be able to buy them cheap. The other thing that would be just too weird about RHD, is on a manual trans, first gear is farthest away, (the same trans as LHD. That's just not right."

[CraigE]

I would take one of them and finish it off. Such a shame. I love MG's.
:eek:

[p38arover]

I used to work in Telstra telephone exchanges and there were fully equipped offices in the exchanges that had not been used in many years. You'd swear the office workers had just gone to lunch.


A few years back, when I was working for Telstra, I had to arrange the stripping out of a closed telex exchange so it could be reused for a new submarine cable installation. The exchange had been empty for some years. When we got to the lunch room the techs had left the fridge with food in it (still on); dirty plates were still on the lunch room table and in the sink.

The control area looked like they'd were still working but just gone out for a while.

Ron

[dobbo]

A few months ago we took the disco and the Rocky up to the old criminally insane ward at the local hospital, it's been adandoned for years, we went for a walk but the decay of years of neglect, vandalism and fire had taken it's toll. Unfortunately it is no longer safe to enter the buildings, not like just 12 months prior, when we did a midnight (ghost run).