King's Road Garage Co Ltd St Annes-on-Sea - Triumph car dealers 101

King's Road Garage Co Ltd were a Standard Triumph car dealer based in St Annes-on-Sea in Lancshire and are the subject of this blog post.

Atlas at agricultural show

It was reported in the February 1960 edition of Standard Triumph Review that: 

KlNG'S Road Garage Co. Ltd., St. Annes on Sea, staged this display at the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show. Containing Atlas Vans, Atlas Pick-ups, Standard Vans and Estate Cars. It attracted much attention from the farming fraternity.

1955 RAC Rally

This photo of the King's Road Garage Co Ltd appeared in Triumph World article.

 

Some old adverts

The Historyworld.co.uk website has a lot of interesting content and is well worth a visit.  This is a series of adverts by the Kings Road Garage that I found on the Historyworld.co.uk website.

Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1957 advert

Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1958 advert

Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1958 advert2

Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1959 advert

Vanguard for George Formby

No more "cleanin winders" for George Formby OBE. He got windscreen washers and wipers on his new Standard Vanguard III. George bought his new car from Kings Road Garage Co Ltd, St Annes-on-Sea.

Show and Service Week promotion

Mr Poslethwaite, Mr Gentle and Mr Fletcher from the Factory Service Department interviewed nearly 200 STANDARD and TRIUMPH owners.

Staff from Standard Triumph HQ visited the business and assisted the firm with week long Show and Service promotions. These were held by the firm at their premises 12 to 17 May 1947.

Loxhams

 

By 1965 the business was operating as Loxhams Garages (St Annes) Ltd.  Loxhams later became a part of the Dutton Forshaw Group.

 

Triumph car dealers in the St Annes area

October 1955, October 1958:
Distributor
Kings Road Garage, Kings Road, St Annes-on-Sea, Lancs - tel 670/1/2


August 1961:
Distributor
Kings Road Garage, Kings Road, St Annes-on-Sea, Lancs - tel 670/1/2
Dealer
Geo Moore & Son (St Annes) Ltd, St Davids Road South, - tel 2060



February 1965, September 1968, March 1970, March 1972:
Distributor

Loxhams Garages (St Annes) Ltd, Kings Road - tel 25111/2/3


March 1974:
Distributor

Dutton Forshaw (St Annes) Ltd, Kings Road, FY8 1NG - tel 25111

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about King's Road Garage Co Ltd of St Annes-on-Sea, 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: Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1957 advert + Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1958 advert + Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1958 advert2 + Kings Road Garage, St Annes-on-Sea - 1959 advert