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| F W Mays - Dorking rear window sticker |
Some history
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| F W Mays - Dorking invoice 1938 |
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| F W May Jaguar advert from Autocar 18 October 1963 |
The company was sold by the Mays family in 1989 to William Jaks. The family kept ownership of the site and leased to William Jaks.
January 2006 saw the remaining 16 employees made redundant as the business was closed down following on from another corporate reorganisation.
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| F W Mays building used by Majestic Wine |
Triumph car dealers in Dorking
April 1951, October 1955:F W Mays & Co Ltd, 38 South Street phone 2244/5
August 1961:
Listed as being a Main Stanpart Stockist (London Metropolitain Area) and as open 7 days a week
March 1974:
F W Mays & Co Ltd, 105 South Street, RH4 2JT phone 2244
May 1975 listed as Rover, Land Rover and Triumph dealer
March 1988:
listed AustinRover
May 1991 Rover Group
F W Mays & Co Ltd, 105 South Street, RH4 2JT phone 0306 882244
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about F W Mays & Co Ltd of Dorking 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.weblinFurther 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:F W Mays - Dorking rear window sticker posted to flickr by Spottedlaurel;
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