Pete Arnold Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Quoted from vitessesteve Yes they are listed with a star against the name so they were a distributor.The Light Car Co. Ltd., Derwent Street. phone 40584/42293 My Vitesse came from there too.I found this one day when I was "surfin't'internet" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu 1986 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hi Steve, Could your new booklet tell me what Triumph Dealers there were in the Exeter area? My car started her life there before she started to make her way up the country. Thanks,S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Quoted from Stu 1986 Hi Steve, Could your new booklet tell me what Triumph Dealers there were in the Exeter area? My car started her life there before she started to make her way up the country. Thanks,S. StuMotor Macs (Exeter) Ltd, Paris Street - distributorLock Brothers, 147 Laysmith Road - dealer If you have a look at the heritage certificate for your car it may show the dealer that first sold it. Unfortunately its not on my TR7 cert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyf Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 There was a Vitesse MK2 Saloon for sale on E-Bay a few years back which had a copy of the Original Sales Invoice from the Light Car Co shown on the Advert.I'm sure someone on here or in the TSSC owns the Car, the reg was BRA ***H I Think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu 1986 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Thanks Steve!!! I haven't got a Heritage Certificate for my car at the moment, but I'll get one in due course. Your information has helped me out a bit though, putting possible locations to the car's origins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Arnold Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Might be of interest to readers of this thread?I was at the Stony Stratford car show on New Year's Day where a 1970 MkII Vitesse was on display together with its original invoice from Lamb's (Romford) Ltd of Hornchurch.I've uploaded photos of both car and invoice. To view - Click on "Events" then "Photo Album" and enter "Stony Stratford" in the Search box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan16v Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Quoted from vitessesteve I have recently bought a copy of the "Triumph Sales and Service Directory" for 1968/9 which for Croydon shows.Carrs Auto Sales Ltd, Standard House, 2 South End, Croydon as a distributorCarrs Aoto Services Ltd Tamworth Road Service Station, Tamworth Road, as a dealer+ Beddington Lane SS, Beddington Lane, as a dealer Thanks Steve, interesting that it has 3 addresses in there. For a sizeable dealership that was around for many years im surpised I can find little information on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 What was Robert Maxwell doing in a brown shop coat?John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Quoted from Steve P I remember Dobsons in Staines.Back when i bought my Vitesse in 1985 i used to go to a BL dealer in Queens road,Weybridge to buy parts for it(Unipart)?Steve Same, used to pop in their a lot after I bought my Vitesse in 82.However, soon found some of the specialist Triumph traders that popped up in the 80s: Sports Six Spares (TLD), Bill Livingstone's shop in Twickenham, Cox and Buckles in Manor Road, Richmond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I have been collecting information about Triumph car dealers since getting hold a booklet that lists dealers and distributors in 1969/70. I will publishing stuff to my blog to share the info.I have merged 2 threads related threads here together. If you have any pictures of window stickers, tread plates, glovebox labels etc please share them here. As an example somebody on facebook shared this with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 My latest blog post is about Evans and Cutler of North Street Totnes in Devon who are listed as a distributor in 1968/69.I emailed the existing business to ask if they recognised the sticker. Here is the reply. Quoted Text Certainly is , mind you we have changed a lot since those days! My father and Mr Cutler started the business in 1946 and I have been in the Garage for 50 of those years. We were Standard dealers and then Triumph distributors which got swallowed up by BL when we had 5 garages and the whole of the BL range. In 1982 we ditched the franchise and took on Ford . If you have any more information about this garage, photos of window stickers or sill plates etc please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 SteveThere is a letter in the 1978 RBRR file from Sales Manager Roger Clarke offering refreshments and refuelling facilities. He was also an official of the Devon Branch of the Club.Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Roy H.E.Tolley of Colne Garage, Butt Road Colchester are listed as dealer in 1968/69. The distributor in Colchester being Eastern Automobiles (Colchester) Limited of Elmstead Road. The Colne garage site is now a Wilco Motor Spares shop see below.These are just the sort of images I am interested in, do you have anything similar? If you have any more information about this garage or other Triumph garages photos of window stickers or sill plates etc please let me know and share them here..Here is a link to the blogs posts I have published so far. http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Triumph%20car%20dealer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan16v Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 Someone kindly sent me a picture after reading my Triumph World article.Carrs Autosales showroom when it first opened, dealing in Standard and Hudson cars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr gallery of images I have found on Flickr: https://flic.kr/y/2eZc4F8If you have any more information about Triumph car dealers such as photos of garages, window stickers or sill plates etc please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny-Jimbo Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656At least one of them still exists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve P Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Heres an Ash tray i bought from e-bay because it has the dealers plate where my Vitesse came from in 1968.College Motors,Bristol.S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Quoted from Jonny-Jimbo https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656At least one of them still exists! Thanks for the that research it is often hard to get modern day images of garages because many have been disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Quoted from Steve P Heres an Ash tray i bought from e-bay because it has the dealers plate where my Vitesse came from in 1968.College Motors,Bristol.S That is something new. I had not seen any Triumph dealer branded ash trays before. Have shared it on Flickr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny-Jimbo Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Going down the list on Flikr;W. J. Coe Ltd of Ipswich does no longer exist.Holway Garage of Hollywell, Flintshire Does exist, although remodelled. The other end of the garage gives the game away a bit more, but the pumps have changed little. Now a Texaco filling station. - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Pullan and Son, Gainsborough may exist now as a wheel alignment place, but with no period photo it's hard to say.There are various garages in Ilkeston, but non are called 'New Oakwell Garage'.Protheroe's of Market Harborough still exists as a car sales room, now a VW specialist - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....9:0x397ca03df4dba160Byatt's of Fenton does not exist as far as I can see, but there are car dealerships along the road but all look too new.M W Crisp does exist as a dealership, see previous post.Mylchreests on the Westmoreland Road, Douglas may exist. The frontage is probably now a small shop, but there is a workshop to one side and a Subaru garage behind, so a possibility. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Arthur Prince of Loughborough exists, now VW, and almost certainly NOT the original building, or has been substantially altered. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656The Austin Garage of Wadham Stringer is there, but now a Sainsbury's Local, but the building is now called 'Austin House'. - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1Kitchen Bros of Diss I can't find, but there is a small leisure centre that could once have been a sales room.Newton Baker of Braunston Gate I think is long gone, no real trace.LF Dove is there in Croydon just about, now a Volvo dealership - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1Whites of Grimsby may exist, but hard to say exactly where it was as an exact address isn't given in the advert.Murray of Stratford St Andrew may exist, now a service station (Where I frequently filled up when I lived in Suffolk!) - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/.....b:0x260e1ca9dad04f52Harry R Fisk of Stoke Holy Cross has gone, no sign of it that I can see.Can't find Ashby's of Cobham as the address is too vague on the sticker... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hammond Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Ashbys of Cobham is now a Waitrose.Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Somebody on Flickr mentioned their image of Ashby's of Cobham to me. This building was demolished in 1982 for a Waitrose?The 1968/69 dealer list that I have has: Thompson & Taylor (Brooklands) Ltd., Portsmouth Road as a Triumph car dealer in Cobham. Did the business change names or move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hammond Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 No, Thompson & Taylor (Brooklands), were a separate dealer that originally were Triumph, but changed to Volvo sometime in the 1970s. It is now a Fired Earth kitchen showroom. Portsmouth Road is 5 minutes walk from the now Waitrose.Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Galileo on the Triumph Dolomite forum has very kindly scanned and made available a 1974'ish copy of the Triumph Sales And Service directory. You can get a copy here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6QR7c9loufLQXJsTkJWUTEtelk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hammond Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Interesting because my old Dolomite Sprint which was a 1974N reg came from LTG Royston (Herts) when new, but that doesn't show up on that directory.....Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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