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Number 27 in my series of articles about Triumph car dealers features Macharg Rennie and Lindsay Ltd of Glasgow.

If you have any more information or recollections about Macharg Rennie and Lindsay Ltd of Glasgow, photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know.

Hi Steve, out of interest have you got any info on Triumph Dealers in the Halifax West Yorkshire area? I tried a bit of amateur digging but only turned up info on Rootes group places.
Cheers, Sam

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html that you can check to find dealers in Halifax.

Cool! Found a couple in the 1974 directory (I picked that as it's the year I was born!)


I know one of them, it's a Tesco now. The other might be a used car place, but the information isn't specific enough to locate without some more research.

The 29th article in my series about Triumph car dealers is about Sanderson & Holmes Ltd and the Light Car Co businesses based in Derby UK.

http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/sanderson-holmes-ltd-and-light-car-co.html

If you have any more information or recollections about any of the Standard Triumph dealers in and around Derby including either Sanderson & Holmes Ltd or the Light Car Co of Derby please get in touch. I would like to see photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc.

There used to be a Triumph/Leyland Dealer in a small town called Heanor just north of Derby, might have been a Kenning's but I cannot remember the name of it.

What I do remember is it closed down in the late 70's and was a private Car Sales lot and garage for a while, they still had the Mk2 Vitesse Two Seater Beater large size Advert up on the Wall!

I was working in the Area at the time but never got the courage up to nip in and ask if I could have it, I think they have a similar one in the TSSC Museum.

[quote=If you have any more information or recollections about any of the Standard Triumph dealers in and around Derby including either Sanderson & Holmes Ltd or the Light Car Co of Derby please get in touch. I would like to see photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc.[/quote]

Steve,
I assume you're aware of this site but in case not:-  http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Light_Car_Co

The bottom jpg on that page shows that Light Car Co was a Triumph specialist at the Derwent Street address in 1950 with same phone number less the first digit!

GracesGuide is a great site that I have often used as a source. I have a dealer list for April 1951 that does not include Light Car Co so think the RAC listing said to be from 1950 may not be correctly dated.

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GracesGuide is a great site that I have often used as a source. I have a dealer list for April 1951 that does not include Light Car Co so think the RAC listing said to be from 1950 may not be correctly dated.

C A Britten & Co (Liverpool) Ltd of Liverpool are the subject of my latest article, another in my series about Triumph car dealers.  Included in my post is an article originally published in the Standard Triumph Review about the making of mobile churches, on the chassis of a Leyland 15, for use in Africa.



http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/c-britten-co-liverpool-ltd-triumph-car.html
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If you have any more information or recollections about any of the Standard Triumph dealers in and around Liverpool including C A Britten & Co (Liverpool) Ltd please get in touch. I would like to see photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc. I can be contacted via the comments to this post or on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.weblin

I have a set up a flickr group to collection Standard Triumph dealer related images: https://flic.kr/g/sBWKW please feel free to contribute.

Hello its been a while since I last posted here about Triumph car dealers. I have been collecting stuff from a new batch of old car magazines I bought recently.

My latest blog post was about Hattons (St Helens) Ltd.

You might also like this post about Canley Car delivery trucks



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H H Timberlake Limited of Wigan are the feature business in article 33.  http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/h-h-timberlake-limited-of-wigan-triumph.html

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http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/mumfords-triumph-car-dealers-34.html
Number 34 in my series of articles about Triumph car dealers this is article about Mumfords who had garages in Plymouth, Truro, Exeter, Newton Abbot, Tiverton and Torquay. I believe Mumfords of Newton Abbot was established following the take over of A C Bulpin & Son Ltd who had been a Standard Triumph garage in 1955. I am not sure of the date of the take over.

Do you have any info about Mumfords, Newquay Road, Truro.

Standard Triumph had a factory in New Zealand where they made Triumph cars.  To get the cars out to the dealers delivery lorries were used.  I have this photo from Andrew Newman on facebook which shows Triumph 2000 MkI's being taken off site by H Boyce & Co Ltd truck.



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Arnold G Wilson Ltd of Leeds sold Standard Triumph product from several of their branches.

http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/arnold-g-wilson-ltd-triumph-car-dealers.html

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I saw this on another website, it's from a local Exeter newspaper dated 1925.

Andrew

The 38th article I have written is about Botwoods Ltd a Triumph car dealer based in the east of England.  Botwoods was a part of the Mann Egerton group.

Until 1910 the motor car manufacturers Botwood & Egerton ran alongside the carriage-making firm until Egerton left to set up his own business in Northgate (Street) next to the Great White Horse Hotel. The Botwood company became Botwoods Ltd and in the 1920s the Botwood shares were acquired by Mann, Egerton & Co of Norwich.

You can read more on my blog at: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/botwoods-of-bury-st-edmunds-ipswich-and.html

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Aylwin Blundell & Co Ltd, Central Garage, Felpham Road, Bognor Regis. : http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/aylwin-blundell-co-ltd-of-bognor-regis.html

This dealer plaque is to be found on the near side door of a 1963 Triumph Herald 12/50 owned by Richard Rose who shared this image with me.

If you have any more information or recollections about Aylwin Blundell & Company Ltd please let me know.

Duff Morgan & Vermont of Norwich formed in 1909, by three men: Colonel Granville Duff, John Delmar Morgan and his brother-in-law, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson. The company is still trading today under the abbreviated name ‘Duff Morgan’ with sites in Norwich and Kings Lynn.

You can read the full story on my blog at:  http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/duff-morgan-vermont-of-norwich-triumph.html



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If you have any more information or recollections about Duff Morgan & Vermont (or any other Standard Triumph car dealer), photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know.]

Steve,
In case it's one you haven't seen, I've just spotted a name & address on a leaflet on eBay
(see #391912612807).

The Douglas Garage Ltd
46/50 Sheep Street,
Northampton
Standard and Triumph Distributors
Phone 3391 (3 lines)