Oasis Garage of Southend-on-Sea - Triumph car dealer 57

Oasis Garage of 654-662 Sutton Road, Prittlewell, Southend-On-Sea, Essex are the feature business in this post in my series about Triumph car dealers.

Oasis Garage Ltd traded for many years from their site at 654-662 Sutton Road, Prittlewell Southend-On-Sea Essex.  I have them listed as a Standard Triumph car dealer for a period.  After losing the Triumph franchise they sold various other brands of cars including Datsun and Colt/Mitsubishi.

Oasis Garage, Southend-on-Sea Datsun advert 1969

Oasis Garage, Southend-on-Sea Colt 1993 advert

Streetview

Site of Oasis Garage Google Streetview August 2009

I believe that this is what has become of the site that was Oasis Garage. Behind the cars I can see doors for flats at 452a and 454a Sutton Road.

Location

I was contacted by Adrian via facebook on Friday 2 April 2021 about the location of the garage building.

Hi Steve. I’ve stumbled across your Vitessesteve blog page regarding the Oasis Garage in Southend. The picture you show from google in 2009 for the current site as a car sales is incorrect. This is the Royston Garage at approx. 452 Sutton Road. The Oasis Garage was at 654 Sutton Road (from the advert) which is much further along and immediately adjacent to Southend Crematorium. It is still a car sales and car was now although the original buildings have been removed. Prior to the Oasis Garage moving to Sutton Road it was on the corner of Southchurch Road and Belle Vue Road which is now a Sainsbury’s Local I am familiar with the garage as it was started by my grandfather and his. Unfortunately my knowledge of the garage and it’s history is not vast. I believe it was started as a motorcycle repairers soon after the war and progressed from there. The family sold the garage in the mid 1980’s. Should you be interested in more information regarding the garage I can ask my father if he would be prepared to pride some more details. He worked at the garage from around the mid 1950s until its sale. Regards Adrian.

Triumph garages in Southend-on-Sea

October 1955:
Capon & Capon 8/10 Nelson Street
W Price (Motors) Ltd, 765 Southchurch Road

1959:
Capon & Capon 8/10 Nelson Street
Oasis Garage, Sutton Road

August 1961:
Capon & Capon 8/10 Nelson Street
Eastern Automobiles (Southend-on-Sea) Ltd, 1163/7 London Road, Distributor 
Oasis Garage, Sutton Road

February 1965:
Brew Brothers Ltd, 36 London Road
Capon & Capon 8 Nelson Street
Oasis Garage, 654 Sutton Road

September 1968, March 1970:
Brew Brothers Ltd, 36 London Road, Hadleigh

from March 1972 there are dealers listed for Southend-on-Sea but in Westcliff-on-Sea businesses such as Chalkwell Motors Co Ltd, 684/686 London Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 9HH  were available.

Plea for information

Have you got information or recollections about any Standard or Triumph garages based in Southend-on-Sea UK? I am looking for 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

Further information and sources

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to my Facebook page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: Oasis Garage, Southend-on-Sea Datsun advert 1969 scan by Spottedlaurel on flickr; Oasis Garage, Southend-on-Sea Colt 1993 advert extracted from a Southend-on-sea vs Newcastle United 1993 football program

Reads of Cheadle - Triumph Car Dealer 56

Reads of Cheadle are the subject of this short post in my series about Triumph car dealers.

Reads of Cheadle

The ridge from an older building shows above the 1960's fascia.

Reads of Cheadle Gatley Road forecourt

R Read & Sons (Cheadle) Ltd began soon after 1918 and offered petrol, parts and service to motorists for much of rest of the 20th century, from its garage on the High Street.  I understand they also had premises on Gatley Road, Cheadle.  Both buildings were gone by some date before 2012.

Triumph Acclaim brochure with Reads of Cheadle business card

 

Reads of Cheadle rear window sticker

Reads of Cheadle  rear window sticker

 

Triumph dealers in the Cheadle area

Looking through my Triumph dealer directories at listings for Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme and Gatley

October 1955, 1959, August 1961:
Grange Garage (Cheadle Hulme) Ltd, Cheadle Road

September 1968, March 1970, March 1972, March 1974
Gatley Autos Ltd, Stonepail Road, Gatley, Cheadle SK8 4HA

Leyland Comet ECO52/3R tractor unit operated by Gatley Autos Ltd., Cheadle

May 1975
R Read & Sons (Cheadle) Ltd, High Street, Cheadle SK8 1BL listed for both Rover and Triumph but not Land Rover.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Grange Garage (Cheadle Hulme) Ltd, Gatley Autos Ltd or Reads of Cheadle, 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 facebook page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: Reads of Cheadle and Reads of Cheadle forecourt images from Cheadle Civic Society; Comet ECO52/3R tractor unit operated by Gatley Autos Ltd., Cheadle photo from British Commercial Vehicle Museum archive; Reads-of-Cheadle  rear window sticker posted to facebook by Gary King .

Standard dealers in India - part 2

Thanks to Shyam K'chari, a facebook friend, I now have a clear scan of a page from Standard Gazel brochure which includes a list of Standard Motor Products of India Ltd distributors and main dealers as at May 1976.

ALLIED MOTORS PRIVATE LTD. 5 Scindia House, New Delhi 1
AUTO CHENOY 62D, Sarojini Devi Road, SECUNDERABAD 3
BHOPAL MOTORS PRIVATE LTD. 1 Sultania Road, BHOPAL 1
BOMBAY METRO MOTORS PRIVATE LTD. 66 Sitaram Patkar Marg, BOMBAY 7
COURTESY MOTORS. Exhibition Road, PATHA 1
COURTESY MOTORS. 17 Camac Street, CALCUTTA 16
FAIRDEAL MOTORS. Residency Street, SRINAGAR
L KULABIDHU SINGH & CO. 114D Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, IMPHAl. 795 001
M, M. MOTORS PRIVATE LTD. Dispur, GAUHATI
M. M. MOTORS. Nongthymmai, SHILLONG 3
ORIENTAL MOTOR CAR COMPANY PRIVITE LTD,53-54 Hazratganj, LUCKNOW 1
RAJ COMMERCIAL. ENTERPRISES, Central Market, ROURKELA
RAMA YESHWANT NAIK & SONS, Margao 1 GOA
R. I. WORKS, Kingsway, NAGPUR 1
SANGHI BROTHERS (INDORE) PRIVATE LTD, 6 Manoramagani, INDORE 1
SOBHAG AGENCIES (PRIVATE) LTD, .Mirza Ismail Road, JAIPUR 1
STANDARD SERVICES 4 Motor Market, Industrial Area, CHANDIGARH
TASHI COMMERCIAL CORPORATION. Phuntsoling, BHUTAN
THE BOMBAY GARAGE. Kingsway, JABALPUR l
THE UNION COMPANY (MOTORS) PRIVATE LTD. 29, Mount Road, MADRAS 2
UNICORN (BANGALORE) PRIVATE LTD. 8 Brigade Road, BANGALORE 1
VIKRAM MOTORS. 15/198, Vikramajit Singh Road, KANPUR 1

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Standard Triumph car dealers in India, 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 my earlier post Standard car dealers in India 

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to facebook page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: Shyam K'chari for a scanned copy of the May 1976 Standard Gazel brochure.

Standard Eight Servicing 1939 Motor Trader 68

Here is another Motor Trader service information data sheet.  This one is for the Standard Eight from 1939 and was originally published way back in July 1939.

You can see a preview below. Click the link to download a copy.



To see more Standard car stuff from my collection

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd of Grantham - Triumph car dealer 41A

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd

Empire Garage truck outside its premises on Brook Street in 1956. From Sam Ballaam

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd, Brook Street, Grantham are listed in directories for October 1955, 1959 and August 1961.  The company Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd was dissolved 13 June 1978 according to an advert in the London Gazette.

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd, Brook Street

Thanks to the Grantham Journal for the following information.  The Empire Garage was built on Brook Street, Grantham, by Lou Musson in 1952. One of the buildings that made way for the garage was the old gymnasium which had various uses in its time including a theatre and a seed warehouse.

The Empire Garage was an agent for Ford, Rover, Singer, Standard and Triumph cars and also sold used cars.  This Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd metal tax disc holder was 3.25inch across and would have given away to promote the business name and remind car users where their vehicle came from.

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd metal tax disc holder

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd metal tax disc holder back

It was later for years known as the Blue Star Garage before it was taken over by Safe Petroleum. It remained as a garage until the new millennium when it was bought by King’s School.

Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd advert Newark Advertiser 1st August 1964 page4

Plea for information

Have you got information or recollections about any Standard or Triumph garages based in Grantham, Lincs UK? I am looking for 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

Further information and sources

I wrote about North Road Garage in a previous blog post in March 2016: https://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealers-7-flying-heralds.html.

Read about Sellers Service Station

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to my Facebook page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr group .

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: Empire Garage truck outside its premises on Brook Street in 1956 - from Sam Ballaam; Empire Garage (Grantham) Ltd, Brook Street photo from Grantham Journal;

Triumph Car Dealer new year 2018 update

What a great year 2017 was. This blog has averaged over 3000 visits a month. The most popular post Triumph dealer posts now attract at least 500 visitors. H A Browett of Leicester with 897 visits is at this point the most popular Triumph dealer blog post.

Triumph Car Dealers
My facebook page now has 470 likes which is good for such a niche subject.

Standard Triumph car dealers
The flickr group now has 357 images and continues to attract new input regularly.

THANK YOU
To everybody for your contributions and comments.