Several garages sold and serviced Triumph cars in Ilkeston. Two of the garage buildings were known as Oakwell Garage and later New Oakwell Garage. of Ilkeston.
Oakwell Garage 1964
This street scene is said to be from 1964 and shows the corner of Oakwell Garage looking down Park Road away from White Lion square. At this stage the business was operated by the Ilkeston Co-operative Society. These building were demolished to make way for an inner relief road.
New Oakwell Garage
What are these two chaps shaking hands on at New Oakwell Garage?
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| New Oakwell Garage rear window sticker |
MOT garage
I have read that Bristol Street Motor traded from New Oakwell Garage, Derby Road, Ilkeston but strangely the postcode used by them was DE7 5FH rather than DE7 5GS. Was this same site or did the business transfer the building name?
Sunwin Motors another MOT provider also traded from the DE7 5FH premises.
A Co-op garage
New Oakwell Garage was an Austin Morris and Rover Triumph dealer during the BL cars era. It was owned and operated by the Ilkeston Co-op.
Ilkeston Co-op owned several car dealerships over the years. Ilkeston Co-op sold its car retail business to United Co-operatives in 2004.
Triumph car dealers in Ilkeston
October 1955, October 1958, 1959:
Kennings Ltd, The Garage, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston phone49
August 1961:
L Clarke (Ilkeston) Ltd, I.S.M Service Garage, Heanor Road, Ilkeston
Kennings Ltd, The Garage, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston phone49
February 1965:
L Clarke (Ilkeston) Ltd, I.S.M Service Garage, Heanor Road, Ilkeston
Oakwell Garage I.C.S Ltd, 30 Market Street, Ilkeston DE2 5QY
September 1968,March 1970:
Oakwell Garage I.C.S Ltd, 30 Market Street, Ilkeston DE2 5QY
March 1972:
Oakwell Garage, 12 South Street, Ilkeston
September 1972,March 1974:
Oakwell Garage, 30 Market Street, Ilkeston DE2 5QY
April 1979: BL Cars
Kenning Ltd, Nottingham Road DE7 5BP
New Oakwell Garage, Derby Road, Ilkeston DE7 5GS
June 1984, January 1987 AustinRover
New Oakwell Garage, Derby Road, Ilkeston DE7 5GS + 12 South Road DE7 5BP
September 1989, August 1990, May 1991 Rover Group
New Oakwell Garage, Derby Road, Ilkeston DE7 5GS + 12 South Road DE7 5BP
Plea for information
If you have any information or recollections about Standard Triumph car dealers in Ilkeston 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: Oakwell Garage 1964 from Picture the Past; New Oakwell Garage rear window sticker posted to flickr by John; New Oakwell - Ilkeston rear window sticker posted to flickr by Jonathon.
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