Monday, August 24, 2020

Chamberlin & Sons of Aylesbury - Triumph car dealers 100

Chamberlin & Son of  Aylesbury sold Standard Triumph cars for a very long time.  
 
These adverts are from 1930's.
Chamberlain & Son, Aylesbury 1935 advert
 
Chamberlin & Son, Aylesbury 20 September 1935 advert from Buckingham Herald
Chamberlin & Son, Aylesbury 21 October 1938 advert from Buckingham Herald
 Chamberlin & Son, Aylesbury 21 October 1938 advert from Buckingham Herald
 
The business partnership known as Chamberlin & Son consisted of Annie Chemberlin and Frank Walter Chamberlin was dissolved 30 March 1933.  The business continued after that date with F W Chamerlin as the sole partner.  At that time the business was stated as being a coach carriage a motor body builder and repairers based at 15 Buckingham Street.

The garage was on Buckingham Street. 
Chamberlin & Sons garage late 1960s  photo from Aylesbury Remembered
 Chamberlin & Sons garage late 1960s  photo from Aylesbury Remembered
Beer mat

Chamberlin & Sons Ltd Aylesbury beer mat
Dealer address stamp
Chamberlin & Sons Ltd, Aylesbury Triumph 2000 Mk2 brochure 1973
 

Triumph dealers in Aylesbury

October 1955, October 1958, August 1961:
Distributor
Chamberlin & Sons, 13-15 Buckingham Street, Tel 371/2 
 
Additionally in October 1958 and August 1961 Harris Motors Ltd, 99 Wendover Road, Stoke Mandeville were listed a dealer.
 
February 1965, September 1968, March 1970, March 1972, March 1974:
Chamberlin & Sons, 13-19 Buckingham Street, Tel 4226/7
 
April 1979:
Distributor
Dutton-Forshaw (Bucks) Ltd, Buckingham Road, HP19 3QQ - Tel 0296 84071

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Chamberlin & Sons of Aylesbury 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 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: Chamberlin & Son, Aylesbury 20 September 1935 advert and Chamberlin & Son, Aylesbury 21 October 1938 advert from Buckingham Herald are both from Pre War Dealerships website; Chamberlin & Sons garage late 1960s  photo from Aylesbury Remembered;

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Triumph Herald Front Suspension and Steering training film strip

 

A video I have made from a Standard Triumph training film strip. Thanks to Adrian Hebron for scanning the original film strip.

These film strip were made by the technical department at Standard Triumph.  I have uploaded several to YouTube which you can see here. Film strip play list

I have made PDF copies of the booklets handed after the film strips which you can see on my website. Service Training Notes