H Clifford & Sons Ltd of Nottingham - Triumph car dealer 72C

H Clifford & Sons Ltd of Chilwell Nottingham feature in this short  post about Standard Triumph car dealers in the Nottingham area.

H Clifford & Sons Ltd were based at Bramcote Avenue, Chilwell.  The business is no more.  The tall man in the photo is Herbert Clifford senior - founder of the business. Herbert Clifford junior his son is in the white coat.  According to Philip Clifford from whom I got these photos and much of the information to write this post the business ran from the 1950's until the 1990's.  They took on the Skoda franchise in the late 1960's after Standard Triumph ended their relationship with the firm.

Herbert Clifford senior was in the Royal Army Service Corps during the second world war.  After the war he started a haulage business which was taken over during the Nationalisation of the freight industry in the 19040's.  He then started a chauffeur driven service with 2 sons.  That developed into a general motor trade operation and eventually a Standard Triumph dealership in the 1950's.

H Clifford & Sons Ltd the company was incorporated 19 October 1951 and dissolved 26 August 1997.

Show and Service week

Staff from Standard Triumph HQ visited the business and assisted with week long Show and Service promotion at Bramcote Avenue from 11 to 15 April1960.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about H Clifford & Sons Ltd of Chilwell or any other Nottingham 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

See also my earlier post about Mitchells of Nottingham the area Triumph distributor.

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:All these photos are from Philip Clifford grandson of Herbert Clifford senior.