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| Leese's rear window sticker |
Number 36 in my series of articles about Triumph car dealers this is short article about Leese's of Barlaston.
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| Leese's rear window sticker from 1985 |
Leese's of Barlaston, Station Road, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent ST12 9DH are still in trading from the same site. They have been in business for over 30 years as at June 2017.
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| Leese's Garage Barlaston advert in Motor 8 January 1964 |
The following images show the garage when it was a Rover Triumph dealer. Barlaston is a village in the borough of Stafford in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is roughly halfway between the city of Stoke-on-Trent and the small town of Stone.
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| Leese's garage forecourt |
All these images are from the same era and several feature a Triumph Dolomite in the showroom.
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| Leese's showroom |
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| Triumph Dolomite in Leese's showroom |
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| Leese's garage forecourt image 2 |
This is a photo taken from the air of Leese's showing their entire site.
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| Lesse's of Barlaston from the air |
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about this garage, photos of window stickers, dealer badges or sill plates etc please let me know. I can be contacted via the comments to this post or on facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/stephen.weblin
Further information and sources
Link to the other articles in this series.
Link to face book page: Triumph Car Dealers.
Link to my
Triumph Car Dealers Flickr gallery of images I have found on Flickr.
I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories:
http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html
Picture credits: Leese's rear window sticker photos from John on flickr; Leese's Garage Barlaston advert in Motor 8 January 1964 scanned from my collection; other images from Chris Green on facebook.
