Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd - Triumph car dealer 89

Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd are the feature business of this post.

Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd, 50/54 Cricklewood Broadway, London NW2 featured briefly in a TV programme. Thanks to David Tongue for spotting this on the BBC iplayer.  I have taken a screen grab at 8.24.

A company called Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd was established 15 April 1959 and has now been wound up. However there appears to have another company with the same in existence before that.

DKW Dealer

1961 saw Broadway Autos selling DKW cars.

Jensen dealer

Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd at one time were a Jensen car dealer.

Broadway Autos Cricklwood advert 1969

The JensenMuseum.org website has a couple of images that I have borrowed for this paragraph.

Broadway Autos Showroom

An old invoice

Broadway Autos Ltd invoice dated August 1959

This invoice dated August 1959 for a Vauxhall Victor forms the centre of an article of the OldClassicCar website that you can see at:  http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/broadway-autos.htm. The invoice is overwritten with details of additional premises at - 155 High Street, Hampton Hill, in Middlesex.

NW2 Triumph car dealers

February 1965:
Ferraris of Cricklewood Ltd, 214/218 Cricklewood Broadway, NW2
Charles Simpson Ltd, Staples Corner, North Circular Road
Starnes Motors, 103 Cricklewood Broadway, NW2 + service at 55 Oak Grove, NW2

September 1968, March 1970:
Broadway Automobiles Cricklewood Ltd, 32/56 Cricklewood Broadway, NW2 - phone 01-450-6633

March 1972, March 1974:
Broadway Automobiles Cricklewood Ltd, 50/54 Cricklewood Broadway, NW2 3EX - phone 01-450-6633

No Triumph dealers are listed May 1975 for NW2.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Broadway Autos (Cricklewood) Ltd 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: Broadway Autos Cricklwood advert 1969 + Broadway Autos Showroom from JensenMuseum.org; Broadway Autos Ltd invoice dated August 1959 image from OldClassicCar website at:  http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/broadway-autos.htm;