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| Advert from Motor 13 October 1954 |
Colwyn Bay Holiday parade
This photograph shows Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser (Bootsie and Snudge), popular television personalities at the time, seated on the tonneau cover of a Herald convertible. Also in the picture is Mr. W. Womar, 'Manager of Hollingdrakes, Colwyn Bay.
Old Street View
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| Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view |
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| Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view 1966 |
Show and Service week
Staff from Standard Triumph HQ visited the business and assisted with week long Show and Service promotion at Princes Drive from 15 to 19 March 1965.Triumph car dealers in Colwyn Bay
April1951:Braid Bros Ltd, Abergate Road
October 1955, 1959, August 1961:
Distributor
Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd, Princes Drive - phone 3322
Dealer
Braid Bros Ltd, Abergate Road - phone 2264 and at Conway Road - phone 2281 - Open 24hrs
February 1965, September 1968:
Distributor
Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd, Princes Drive - phone 3322
March 1970, March 1972, March 1974, May 1975:
Distributor
Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd, Princes Drive, LL29 8PN - phone 0492 30322
In the May 1975 listing they are shown as being distributors for Land Rover and Rover in addition to Triumph. I do not have any records of when they held any other franchises.
Heron Colwyn Bay did take over Rolls Royce and Bentley from Braid Bros, Colwyn Bay in 1976.
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd of Colwyn Bay or any other part of the Hollingdrake group 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.weblinFurther information and sources
Link to post about Hollingdrake of StockportLink 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: Colwyn Bay's Holiday Procession in 1961 photo from the Standard Triumph Review November 1961; Old street view photo posted by Dafyn Jones to facebook;
Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view photos posted by Merfyn Jones to flickr..
Princes Drive where Holingdrake's was, was not on the Tramway route. And the tram track remains in situ, never having been lifted.
ReplyDeleteI learnt today that Hollingdrakes of 27 Bank Street,Manchester (Stockport?) were agents for Hupmobile,who ceased production in 1940.I have a 1939 example.
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