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| Hills Piccadilly Ltd of Manchester 1966 |
The business held several franchases. At the time of the photo of their forecourt they were selling Citoen, Ford and Triumph cars.
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| Site of Hills Piccadilly Ltd in Manchester 2014 |
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If you have any more information or recollections about Hills Piccadilly Ltd or any other Standard or Triumph dealer in Manchester 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 a list of Manchester area Standard Triumph dealersLink 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: Hills Piccadilly Ltd of Manchester 1966 and Site of Hills Piccadilly Ltd in Manchester 2014 photos posted by Duncan Gill to facebook.
In 1963 I was a apprentice Auto Electrician at Hills Garages Ltd. The postal address of Hills Piccadilly was indeed Port Street but the forecourt ran through to Tariff Street which ran parallel to Port Street. At this time there was three separate garages, Hills Piccadilly, Hills Garages (Vauxhall Bedford) and Hills Diesels which was only small and had its entrance on Tariff Street between the other two Garages.
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Vinny2jags
I worked for Hills Garages on Port Street (is it the same place) in 1985/86 as an apprentice. It was a vauxhall car Bedford truck dealer. They had a car sales department and a tachograph center on the other side of the canal. The blue and white paint you can now see in the car park was painted on during my time there. It went in to receivership as the owner allegedly emptied the bank. Bedford then stopped making trucks hence it closed its doors. I remember it being a black cab Taxi garage for a long time after that and then it was demolished. I didn't enjoy my time there as it was old school and full of lunatic bullies and really nasty people that used to batter the apprentices every day, throw us in the canal take our food of us, soak us on cold days and grease our testicle's. They also used to catch rats and gas them then bring them around and finally burn them alive.I was happy when it closed and I got a job at Salford Van hire which was a breath of fresh air.
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