Saturday, July 22, 2017

Prouts (Liverpool) Ltd -Triumph Car Dealers 30B

Prouts (Liverpool) Ltd are the subject of this article another in my series about Triumph car dealers in the Liverpool area.

Prouts garage on Breck Road, Liverpool
Prouts garage on Breck Road, Liverpool
Prouts (Liverpool) Ltd, 202/206 Breck Road, Liverpool 5 are listed as a Standard Triumph in October 1955.  The company is listed as being dissolved. I have seen reference to Prouts (Liverpool) Ltd being a Morris car dealer in 1935.  At he time of the photo the garage was dealing in Morris, Wolseley and Austin cars.
Advert from 1961
This 1961 advert is scanned from a pantomime program.
Prouts car hire advert from 1937
Prouts car hire advert from 1937
 Prouts car hire advert from 1937.

Prouts breakdown truck


Prouts garage Liverpool breakkdown lorry
Prouts garage Liverpool breakkdown lorry
Bob Daniels shown driving was foreman mechanic at Prouts. He worked there all his working life starting out as an apprentice.  Thanks to his daughter for the photo.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Prouts (Liverpool) Ltd, 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 an article about C A Britten Ltd the Liverpool Triumph car distributor. 

Link to post about J B Hepburn Ltd another Triumph car dealer in Liverpool.

Link to the other articles in this series.

Link to face book page: Triumph Car Dealers.

Link to my Triumph Car Dealers Flickr gallery of images I have found on Flickr.

I have a collection of Standard Triumph car dealer directories: http://vitessesteve.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/triumph-car-dealer-directories.html

Picture credits: 1961 advert from Bradford Timeline on flickr; Prouts car hire advert from 1937 from After The Break website; Prouts garage Liverpool breakkdown lorry photo from daughter of Bob Daniels.

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