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| F Horner & Son Ltd, Manchester advert from What Car magazine July 1977 |
The original Horners business was established in 1922 as an Austin dealership. Over the years, F Horner & Son became a landmark on Bury New Road. The Horners family sold out in 1986. They also had a Vespa and Lambretta dealership on Ayres Road, Old Traffold.
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| Horners |
Horners, which was hard hit by the collapse of Rover in 2005 went on to operate Mitsubishi and Skoda franchises on Bury New Road, Manchester, and on Queensway Rochdale. Horners Motor Group went bust in April 2010.
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| F Horner & Sons Ltd, New Road, Bury 1967 |
Plea for information
If you have any more information or recollections about Horners of Manchester 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:both adverts from my own collection; .F Horner & Sons Ltd, New Road, Bury 1967 photo by L H Price from Manchester Libraries collection.
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