Moortown Motors Limited of Leeds - Triumph Car Dealer 35B

This brief post is about Moortown Motors Limited who were based in Leeds UK.  They sold and serviced Standard based motor caravans. 

Moortown Motors Limited were a VW garage who built motor caravans based on the VW bus body.

Moortown Motors Limited 1962 VW Autohome advert

Moortown Motors, paint shop

 

1962. Interior view of Moortown Motors Ltd., situated on Regent Street by the corner with Skinner Lane. Moortown Motors were concessionaires for Volkswagen and were part of the Arnold G. Wilson group of companies at the time. The company painted parts and body shells and claimed to have one of the only two plants in the UK that could reproduce a factory finish. This view shows the paint shop with the spray booths and drying areas on the right. Photograph courtesy of Don Smith who was manager of the paint shop at the time.

Plea for information

If you have any information or recollections about Moortown Motors Limited of Leeds UK or any other Standard Triumph car dealers in the area 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: Moortown Motors Limited 1962 VW Autohome advert from Graces Guide an excellent source for historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain.; Interior view of Moortown Motors Ltd from Leeds City Council archive Leodis