Friday, June 30, 2017

Leese's of Barlaston - Triumph Car Dealer 36

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.
Leese's rear window sticker from 1985
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.
Leese's Garage Barlaston advert in Motor 8 January 1964
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.
Leese's garage forecourt
Leese's garage forecourt
All these images are from the same era and several feature a Triumph Dolomite in the showroom.

Leese's showroom
Triumph Dolomite in Leese's showroom

Leese's garage forecourt image 2
Leese's garage forecourt image 2
This is a photo taken from the air of Leese's showing their entire site.

Lesse's of Barlaston from the air
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.

Sunday, June 04, 2017

Standard Triumph Review as a source - Triumph Car Dealers

Standard Triumph Review Archive DVDs cover
Standard Triumph Review Archive DVDs cover
Standard Triumph produced an in house magazine.  I have been glad of the scanned collection I bought from the TSSC which covers the period 1959 to 1968.  It has been a great source of information about Standard Triumph dealerships.

Recently I was checking on eBay to see if I could add to my collection.  I found these interesting covers.

Portsmouth Garages Limited
St Helier Garages
Russells of Chatham

More info requested

Can you help me by sharing any information you may have about Portsmouth Garages Limited, St Helier Garages or Russells of Chatham.