Standard Triumph dealers

[magnet]

Hello Tom,
If you would like to PM me your registration number - or post on here would be better if you are happy to - then I will see what digging I can do to point you in the right direction in terms of its history search.

Although the DVLA should not be ignored as a source of information I'm sure it will be appreciated that the computerisation of records did not start there until c1983.
Some owners have been lucky and managed to obtain 'historical' information passed to DVLA at the the time of first recording, and sometimes DVLA did copy and retain this, so it was a good move to at least try them on the off chance.
Kind regards,
Gareth.

[stephenweblin]

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.

vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/p-w-barker-ltd-of-worcester-triumph-car.html

[motyblod]

Stephen - thank you for the website link.
Gareth - I contacted the DVLA when I first bought the ambulance and they sent me photocopies of the info they had from 1983 onwards. The amb has had 7 reg numbers since 1983; then, it was LWD 290. Currently it's KHC 550. If you or anyone else is interested in the other numbers, they are in an article I wrote about the amb which is on this site. Go to the SMC Home Page; in the Search Box, type: standard vanguard estate; scroll just past half way and you'll see the item titled Tom Dolby's Vanguard Estate.

[RichardH]

Article here
Richard

[magnet]

A very interesting article, and particularly strange why it should have had so many changes of period registration numbers.

The first number recorded at the time the DVLA record was set was LWD 290 - if I read it correctly- and this would make sense in relation to its build date. The LWD sequence was first issued by Warwickshire CC in Dec. 1951 and ran only until March 52, so I would put 290 at around late Jan/early Feb. of 1952. Home trade restrictions on new vehicles come to mind - so who did own it??

My first port of call would now be Warwickshire Archive to see if they retain records of first registration for this sequence. Perhaps unlikely since this was a volume registration county, but you never know until you try.

The fact that the was registered with a county number so close to its build date would tend to dispel the military connection. However, counties were not always consistent in the way in which they dealt with vehicles registered some years after they were first built/used, but most commonly, they tended (then) to be allocated numbers which were current at the date they were registered in "private hands" particularly if they were ex military.

I would certainly try Warwickshire Archives, and failing that it has the makings for a nice potentially fact finding article in a newspaper local to that area.
Good luck with it.
Kind regards,
Gareth.

[webmaster]

And the Ambulance is here:
www.standardmotorclub.org/page653.html

Phil

[stephenweblin]

I have featured several rear windows stickers in my articles about Standard Triumph car dealers and my latest article features several stickers that are non dealer specific.

vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/triumph-car-dealer-stickers-triumph-car.html

[stephenweblin]

Pullan & Son of Gainsborough are the subject of this the 28th article in my series about Triumph car dealers.

vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/pullan-son-of-gainsborough-triumph-car.html

[stephenweblin]

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.

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.

[stephenweblin]

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

[stephenweblin]

Has anybody got a dealer list or directory for pre world war 2 ie before 1939? I have directories from 1955 onwards

[stephenweblin]

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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If you have any more information or recollections about any of the Standard Triumph car delivery lorries or Hattons (St Helens) Ltd please get in touch. I would like to see any photos you may have. I can be contacted via the comments to this post or on facebook at: www.facebook.com/stephen.weblin

[stephenweblin]

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

Plea for more information
If you have any more information or recollections about H H Timberlake Limited of Wigan please get in touch. I would like to see any photos you may have.


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.

[alankey]

My dad worked at a Standard triumph garage from when he left school at 14 until he retired aged 70.The garage was called Leeses of Barlaston. it is in Staffordshire

[stephenweblin]

AUGUST 1985 AUSTIN MINI 998cc RITZ C140TFA by JOHN, on Flickr

I am still collecting info and will writing a post about Leeses in the future.