Saturday, December 15, 2018

Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd of Colwyn Bay - Triumph car dealers 76

Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd of Colwyn Bay feature in this post about Triumph car dealers.
Advert from Motor 13 October 1954
Hollingdrake Automobile Co Ltd had branches in several towns in addition to Colwyn Bay including Manchester, Prestbury and its head office was in Stockport.

Colwyn Bay Holiday parade

Hollingdrake Automobile Co. Ltd, Colwyn Bay, supplied Triumph Heralds for V.I.P.'s during Colwyn Bay's Holiday Procession in 1961.

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

This photo is said to be from when the tram tracks were lifted from the Llandudno & Colwyn Bay tram system during the mid 1950's.
Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view
Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view
Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view photo posted by Daniel Moore to the Colwyn Bay Past & Present In Picture page on facebook. 
Hollingdrakes, PrincessWay, Colwyn Bay street view 1966
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.weblin

Further information and sources

Link to post about Hollingdrake of Stockport 

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

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..

2 comments:

  1. Merfyn Jones3:19 pm

    Princes Drive where Holingdrake's was, was not on the Tramway route. And the tram track remains in situ, never having been lifted.

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  2. I 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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