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"vitessesteve"
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Moores of Brighton feature in my latest blog post about Triumph car dealers.  http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/moores-of-brighton-limited-triumph-car.html

If you have any more information about Moores or any other Triumph garage, photos of window stickers or sill plates etc please let me know.

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Moores of Brighton (1924) Limited ran as s Triumph car distributor for many years. From at least 1955 until 1974 they had premises at Russel Square.  I believe the Russell Square building was demolished and that a multistorey car park was built on the site.Over the years the business held several franchases as can be seen in both the adverts on this page.  Prestige brands including Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jensen, Jaguar and Daimler cars were sold from a showroom at 39 Old Steine.  The business was bought by Dutton Forshaw in 1961 but went on trading under the Moores name until sometime after 1968.

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Cars - Valencia Blue 69 Vitesse Mk2 Saloon since 1991 and a TR7 Sprint.

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Glad you posted that Steve. I had a herald (very rough, bought as a donor car as it had loads of new stuff, all got used when I build my vitesse)
Anyway, that was a Moores supplied car, and had a Moores treadplate. I have had a look, but it must have gone as it is nowhere to be found (23 years ago)

I remember moores got bought out by Dutton Forshaw at some point, they dealt with luxury motors and had a showroom in Western Road, Brighton, the main shopping street in Brighton. That would be the early 70's

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I have collected all my dealer directories together and you can now get at them on my googledrive: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_CE2l4Osa3SZXJxSjVBZ1hfN2c&usp=sharing

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My latest blog post is about Wests of Lincoln and J R J Mansbridge Triumph car dealers in Lincoln: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/j-r-j-mansbridge-wests-of-lincoln.html

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Browetts in Leicester are the subject of my most recent article about Triumph car dealers.

http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/browetts-of-leicester-triumph-car_29.html



This business used radio to keep in touch with its service fleet.

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Triumph car dealers in Exeter feature in my latest blog post: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/motor-macs-exeter-ltd-and-lock-bros-of.html



Motor Macs (Exeter) Ltd and Lock Bros of Exeter



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The Exeter post was number 18 in my series about Triumph car dealers since then I have done these.
Lambs Ltd of Woodford Green - Triumph Car dealers 19:
Patmore Bros Limited, Loughton Essex - Triumph Car dealers 19a
Newton Baker Ltd of Leicester - Triumph Car Dealers 17a
Wicliffe Motor Co Ltd of Stroud, Gloucester and Tewkesbury - Triumph Car Dealers 20



My dealer directories cover the period from 1955 until 1974.  I have not been able to find when Wicliffe Motor Co Ltd got the Triumph franchise can you help?



Anybody know anything about this pickup?

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Hi Steve,

Just to indulge your "weird perversion"   with old ex-Triumph Dealers, there a 1970 one owner 13/60 convertible on eBay currently, it shows a rear window sticker that looks suspiciously like Caffyns (well known and long established dealer group who still exist).

Here is the link:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970.....9:g:FPAAAOSwdzVXnzjG

Mark

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Good spot Mark - pretty unusual to see anything convertible tops

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Quoted from vitessesteve
Good spot Mark - pretty unusual to see anything convertible tops


Especially 46 year old ones!  Most people took 'em off when they got the car home.  On my Herald that is what my grandfather did once we got home from the dealership.  He kept the tax disc holder though and I was still using it up until tax discs finished.

M.

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Have you seen my facebook page about Triumph Car Dealers? https://www.facebook.com/TriumphCarDealers

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Article 22 in my series about Triumph car dealers features Arthur Prince's Garage Limited of Loughborough.

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Here is the third version of a Carrs of Croydon sill plate.  It sent to me via facebook from Rie Kurahashi in Canada.  The plate is on his friends Vitesse which is in Japan. What a amasing connected world we live in.

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Quoted from vitessesteve
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Here is the third version of a Carrs of Croydon sill plate.  It sent to me via facebook from Rie Kurahashi in Canada.  The plate is on his friends Vitesse which is in Japan. What a amasing connected world we live in.


have you any larger versions of the picture, it shows up quite small?  any idea what year car the plate is from?  

Dan
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There is a much higher definition version on my blog: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/triumph-car-ddealers-carrs-autosales.html

It's on a 72 Vitesse now located in Japan, in Okazaki.

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P J Evans of Birmingham are the subject of my latest post: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/p-j-evans-of-birmingham-triumph-car.html

They started selling Standard Triumph product in 1912.  Has anybody got info and or images of their Redditch branch they can share with me.

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Rothwell &amp; Milbourne, Malvern by Stephen Weblin, on Flickr

Rothwell & Milbourne Ltd of Malvern are featured in my latest post: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/rothwell-milbourne-of-malvern-triumph.html

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This on ebay at the moment...   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hewi.....3:g:n9IAAOSwal5YI1XN

13/60 (1500 o/d) Estate. Reincarnating as  'The Heep'.

Eastbourne. E.Sussex.

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L F Dove, Kingston Road STR 03-1965 by Stephen Weblin, on Flickr

I have updated my blog post about L F Dove. Here is one of the new photos. You can read the revised post here: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealers-6-l-f-dove-of.html

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The 26th article in my series about Triumph car dealers and features P W Barker Ltd of Worcester.

If you have any more information or recollections about P W Barker Ltd of Worcester, photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know.

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