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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd |
Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd of Broadway Garage, 360 London Road CR4 3XY feature in this post about a Standard Triumph car dealer in Mitcham. They are listed in directories from October 1955 until May 1975.
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd advert 1961 |
Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd the company which started on 3 March 1937 was dissolved 23 January 2007.
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| Allen Bros radio tv repairs advert 1952 |
The Allen Brothers also owned a radio and television repair shop, over the road from the garage, on the south corner of Broadway Gardens and London Road.
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd, Bond advert from Motor 14-11-1964 |
From 1953 Who’s Who in the Motor Industry which has been digitised by
Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History:
Car and Light Commercial Vehicle Stockists.
360, London Road, Mitcham, Surrey.
Telephone: 0867.
Directors:
M.D. Allen.
Lt. Col. F.E. Manning O.B.E.
P.L. Smith.
H.F. Priest.
Going going gone
Like many other such buildings that ceased being used as car dealers the premises were reused and then demolished. After Kwikfit stopped using the building it was knocked down and the site redeveloped.
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.going |
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.going 02 |
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.gone |
Invoice, delivery note and rental contract
Thanks to Wade Brice for letting me share these invoices from
his website. The garage like many others also rented out cars.
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| Allen Bros Rental Contract header 17 May 1985 |
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| Allen Bros delivery note 9 February 1985 |
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| Allen Bros invoice 13 November 1984 |
Dashboard Sticker
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| Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd dashboard sticker |
Mr Manning and old cars
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| Old Crock owned by Mr Manning, Allens Garage, Cricket Green |
Lt Col F E Manning OBE who was a director of Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd drove a 1900 Benz on the London to Brighton run in 1967 with his son.
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| Renault 1910 car outside Allen Bros.Garage, Mitcham |
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd
or any other Mitcham 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: Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd + Old Crock owned by Mr Manning, Allens Garage, Cricket Green + Renault 1910 car outside Allen Bros.Garage, Mitcham photos from Merton archives; Allen Bros radio tv repairs advert 1952 + ; 1961 advert from Norwood News, via the British Newspaper Archive as found on the https://mitchamhistorynotes.wordpress.com website; Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd dashboard sticker photo posted to facebook by Stephen Roberts;
The Bond Equipe GT was essentially a rebodied Triumph Vitess 2 litre. A rather strange looking car, and an odd marriage of two different makes, the Bond was a glass fibre body. Bond were best known for three wheel bubble cars usually powered by Villiers two stroke engines.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle, John Willcocks was the service manager at Allen Brothers from around the late sixties until Kwik Fit decided to destroy the place. My first car was Allen Bros formans (jock) Austin 1100. My first 3 cars were (Austin 1800 & Princess)'good'trade-ins!!!. Many returns for many parts! To be honest the 1100 & 1800 were bloody good cars.
ReplyDeleteI remember the bosses son was known as Butch.
Thanks for sharing your memories of the Allen Bros garage business.
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