Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Roy H G Tolley of Colchester - Triumph Car dealers 4

Roy H G Tolley of Colchester Triumph car Dealer
Roy H G.Tolley of Colne Garage
This is the fourth in an occasional series about Triumph car dealers. Roy H G Tolley of Colne Garage, Butt Road Colchester are listed as dealer in 1965, 1968/69 and 1974. In 1968/69 the distributor in Colchester was Eastern Automobiles (Colchester) Limited of Elmstead Road. The Colne garage site is now a Wilco Motor Spares shop see below.
Site now
Established in 1960 by Mr Roy Tolley initially a Rover Triumph franchise until a move in 1976 to Citroen.
Roy Tolley advert 1978 Citroen
Roy Tolley - Citroen advert from 1978
Roy H G Tolley Ltd Autocar 18 October 1963
Roy H G Tolley Ltd Autocar 18 October 1963
The company continues to sell new cars but from another site 72 Gosbecks Road, Colchester, Essex CO2 9JS. From 2008 they started selling MG cars along side Citroen. At the time of writing they were also an MOT testing garage.

Tax Disc Holder

Roy H G Tolley Ltd tax disc holder
Roy H G Tolley Ltd tax disc holder

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about this garage, 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

Cyril J Deal Ltd of Kelvedon near Colchester

Link to the other articles in this series.

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

Roy H G Tolley of Colne Garage image posted by Lee Godfrey on facebook; Roy H G Tolley Ltd tax disc holder Daniel Perry on facebook; Roy Tolley - Citroen advert from 1978 from Colchester Operatic program 1978.

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