A G Boyes & Co Ltd of Huddersfield - Triumph car dealers 77

A G Boyes Co Ltd are the feature business in this post about Standard Triumph car dealers in the Huddersfield area.  The company was established in 1924.

A G Boyes & Co Ltd, Huddersfield dealer address stamp on TR6 brochure

According to an extract from Who's Who in the Motor Industry 1953 which is available on the graceguide.co.uk website A G Boyes Co Ltd were a car and commercial vehicle stockist.  The directors were A G Boyes M.I.M.I.S, S Thornton M.I.M.R.S and R S Hallas MBE.

In 1964 Leonard  Butters and his wife bought A.G. Boyes and  renamed it Boyes Garages.  The business folded in the late 1970s.

Geoff Boycott

Geoff Boycott in a new Herald convertible

Mr. Leonard Butters shows Geoff Boycott the controls of a Herald

It was reported in the Standard Triumph Review of May 1965 that: Geoff Boycott, Yorkshire and England opening batsman, is canny enough to go to a Triumph Distributor for a new car and was also enough of a Yorkshireman to purchase the car before the Budget was announced. In the picture he is seen trying a Herald convertible when he went shopping at A G. Boyes & Co. Ltd., Standard-Triumph Distributors, Huddersfield, at the invitation of Mr. Leonard Butters, Managing Director. Mr. Butters met the England cricketer at a cricket dinner recently, and as a result Mr. Boycott visited the garage at Queensgate and tested many of the cars.

Invoices

A G Boyes Co Ltd invoice 10August 1966

This A G Boyes Co Ltd invoice from 10 August 1966 shows that the directors at that time were Mr Leonard Butters, Mrs Joan Butters and J C M Smith.

A G Boyes Co Ltd invoice 8 February 1967

In 1967 the business had branches at Manchester Road Marsden; Newsome Road, Newsome and Halifax Road, Birchencliffe. 

Views of the buildings

A G Boyes Triumph Herald launch display

An alternative view of the garage.

A G Boyes

A G Boyes & Co Ltd, Chapel Hill, Huddersfield

Dealer address

October 1955, 1959, August 1961:
Distributor: A G Boyes & Co Ltd, East Parade phone 7676/7/8

February 1965, September 1968, March 1970, March 1972, March 1974:
Distributor: A G Boyes & Co Ltd, Queensgate HD1 2JE phone 27676/7/8

March 1974:
Distributor: Boyes Garages (Huddersfield) Ltd, Queensgate HD1 2JE phone 27676/7/8

Show and Service week

Staff from Standard Triumph HQ visited the business and assisted with week long Show and Service promotion at Queensgate 22 to 26 February 1965, 16 to 20 October 1967 and 4 to 8 November 1968.  and at East Parade from 21 to 25 November 1960.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about A G Boyes Co Ltd or any other Huddersfield area Standard Triumph dealer such as 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 which includes many photos of Standard Triumph garages etc from my collection and many other contributors .

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

Picture credits: Geoff Boycott in a new Herald convertible + Mr. Leonard Butters shows Geoff Boycott the controls of a Herald from the Standard Triumph Review May 1965; Invoices images downloaded from eBID website; A G Boyes & Co Ltd, Chapel Hill, Huddersfield posted facebook by David Simpson;