This is my second article about Broadfields Garage & Engineering Co Ltd, Standard House, Cockfosters in North London. This time I am covering the subject of Standard Triumph Sales and Service Weeks in more detail.
You can read part 1 here:
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| Cars undergoing- inspection and report by Standard Service Engineers. |
For many years Standard Triumph Distributors and Dealers throughout the country held Annual Standard and Triumph Service Weeks. These are usually staged in cooperation with the Standard Service and Spares Division who sent special displays. Standard Service Engineers attended ready to give owners the advantage of their special knowledge.
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A special display of Genuine Standard Spares. Always look for the
sign of genuine parts denoted by the word STANPART |
Standard and Triumph owners in the area were invited to bring their cars in for inspection during the period so that they could be reported upon by the Standard experts free of charge. The increasing popularity of these Service Weeks is reflected in the following records over a period of seven years kept by Broadfields Garage & Engineering Co. Ltd.
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A special display at Broadfields Service Week to show some of the
special Stanpart Accessories available. |
Many senior members of The Standard Motor Co. Ltd attended the first day of the Service Week at Broadfields Garage and Engineering Co. Ltd in 1958. Among those who can be recognised are right to left --Mr.F. E. Higham, Director of Home Sales; Mr.P. W.Bingham, London Manager; Mr. H. E. Pugh, Spares Manager; Colonel Ronald Maude; Mr. N. A. G. Black, Spares Executive, London.
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about Broadfields Garage, 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 my first post about Broadfields
Link to face book 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 Standard Triumph Review February 1958.
My Father, Wilf Lewis, worked as Stores (or Spares/Parts) Manager at Broadfields for over 25 years retiring in 1975. Presumably his predecessor was Mr H E Pugh shown in the photograph above. Colleagues in the office were Roy Head, Assistant Manager, Peter and Sue.
ReplyDeleteMr Hawkins owned Broadfields at the time and Ron Julian was Car Sales Manager. I worked there during school holidays as did my brothers.