Total MX-5 – July 2019

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Summer 2019 | TOTAL MX-5 |^67

friend, Mike Lennon, who was
supplying parts to the Morris
Minor crowd, proposed that he
and David should go into
business together – they set up
The Morris Minor Centre
Birmingham which as it grew
successfully necessitated
moving to the current premises
in Oldbury in 1998, where the
company has stayed ever since.
And having established a

profitable formula for selling

classic car parts, it wasn’t long

before the company that

started with Jaguar and Daimler

parts later collaborated with

the Mini Spares Centre, and

then acquired Abingdon MG

Parts Ltd in 2000.

From an MX-5 perspective

that latter acquisition was a

pertinent buy, as Kate explains:

‘Abingdon MG Parts was

operated by the Moss

Birmingham branch, which

despite the name was a

separate entity to Moss

International. We were

attracted by the MG and

Triumph spares, but they also

had a strange little line away

from those traditional British

sports cars: the MX-5.

‘We didn’t know too much

about the Mazda, but that facet

of the business seemed a neat

fit and had clear growth

potential, so we decided to

keep it on.

‘Its performance was so

encouraging that in 2006 we

acquired all the MX-5 parts

stock of Shing Fung Trading –

despite the name it was actually

run, very successfully, by David

Butterfield and his wife from a

shed in their garden in Coventry.

Hive of activity: the despatch department at DMG is kept very busy Classic Jaguar bonnet mascots hint at DMG’s heritage

You won’t find many parts for the MX-5 lurking in the cabinets in DMG’s showroom, but there’s always someone behind the counter who can help you