In 2007, the MG Car Club of Qld celebrated forty years of operation of its hillclimb venue at Mt Cotton by publishing a book covering the forty years of competition held there.

In order for this book to be compiled, photographs from the earliest days of competition were needed and photographer Brier Thomas gave access, at no cost, to the Club for use in the book.

All of his negatives of events at Mt Cotton were scanned but, of course, all couldn’t be used. It seemed only sensible that the photos be made available to anyone interested in seeing them all and thus a photo disc was compiled and made available for sale. The disc, like others that have now followed, took the form of a catalogue of the photos with the potential for people wanting to purchase larger files of individual photos to do so at a reasonable price.  

It then seemed natural to continue and scan more of Brier Thomas’s negatives as he had been the official photographer at Lowood circuit and had also taken photos for many years at Lakeside and also at the Surfers Paradise circuit.

Consequently all of his Lowood negatives have been scanned and made available on a photo disc.

The Lakeside negatives are currently being scanned. There are so many of them covering so many years that there will be four of these covering the years 1961-1966; 1967-1972, 1973-1979, and 1980-1989. All four have now been completed and are available to purchase.

Every negative of Brier’s has been scanned and none of them has been altered or enhanced in any way.

These photo discs are available for sale from the MG Car Club of Qld Inc (an order form is available on the regalia page of their website www.mgccq.org.au ) or from here (Click here for an order form.)

Watch this page to find out when further discs become available or email vprojects@uq.net.au for more information.

NB: Please note that we do not have a direct credit card facility but payment may be made by credit card using the PAYPAL system; otherwise payment must be by cheque or bank transfer. We are not registered for GST so there is no GST component to the charges.