Pullan & Son of Gainsborough - Triumph Car Dealers 28

Pullan & Son of Gainsborough are the subject of this the 28th article in my series about Triumph car dealers.

Pullan & Son - Standard Vanguard advert from 1953

Pullan & Son - advert from 1959

Pullan & Son garage on Bridge Street Gainsborough

google street view of site

Standard Triumph dealers in Gainsborough

In April 1951 the Standard Triumph franchise for Gainsborough was held by a firm called Shipley & Co Ltd based in premises on the Market Place.

By October 1955 Pullan & Son Bridge Street are listed in the Standard Triumph dealer directory. They are also listed in 1959, 1961, 1965. However by September 1968 they are not listed.

I understand that the Pullan & Son Bridge Street building was demolished in 1968 or 1969.

There are no Triumph dealers listed 1972 or 1974.  Baine Bros Ltd, North Street, Gainsborough DN21 2HY are listed as a Rover and Triumph dealer in May 1975. By March 1988 Rocar (Gainsborough) Ltd, 30 North Street, DN21 2HY are listed as a Austin Rover dealer but as the Triumph marque was discontinued in 1984  would have only offered service to Standard Triumph vehicles.   

Baine Bros Ltd garage - Gainsborough

Plea for more information

If you have any more information or recollections about Pullan & Son of Gainsborough, 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

You might also like my post about Triumph car dealers in Lincoln

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

Picture credits: 1953 advert and 1959 advert Allen on flickr;  Bridge Street photo DavyBoy65 on flickr; Baine Bros Ltd garage - Gainsborough found on facebook.