SAD ENDING

Some of you will know that a bloke named Cecil Kimber was the brains behind and co-founder of the company that eventually became MG. But what you mightn’t know is how Cecil went to his reward. On February 4, 1945, he boarded a train in London, heading to Leeds. But the train stalled on a slippery section of new track, began to roll backwards and derailed at a set of points. Cecil and one other passenger, who was also in the carriage that was crushed against the signal gantry, died.