Davis were based in Sevenoaks, Surrey, United Kingdom. The firm sold cars over a long period of time.
The business was established to be both a motor garage and to operate coaches.The coach business was sold on during 1972.
Originally established as a company called W Davis & Sons Sevenoaks Limited early in 1946. The business went into voluntary liquidation and has been dissolved.
Some adverts
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| Davis advert Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentis 5 May 1967 |
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| W Davis & Sons advert Sevenoaks_Chronicle_and_Kentish Advertiser 4 November_1960 |
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Davis Garage advert Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 13 August 1977 |
Stainless Stephens choice
Quoting from an article in the Standard Triumph Review May 1968.
Yet another personality has chosen the Triumph 1300 as his car. In the photograph Mr. W. T. Kay, Sales Manager of Davis Garage, Sevenoaks, Kent, is seen handing over the key to the new owner Mr. A. C. Baynes. Older readers will remember Mr. Baynes better as Stainless Stephen, a pre-war top of the bill artiste on radio and stage. Stainless Stephen lives with his son who is a farmer at Chiddingstone in the
heart of Kent, and his son is also a Triumph owner having a 2000.
MOT garage
For many years the garage was an approved MOT testing garage.
Triumph dealers in Sevenoaks
In 1955 there were 2 other dealers in Sevenoaks.
Plea for information
If you have any information or recollections about Davis Garage or any other Sevenoaks Standard Triumph car dealers 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
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