Hewitts Garages Ltd of Wolverhampton - Triumph Car Dealer 83

Hewitts rear window sticker

This post is about Hewitts a Triumph car dealer who had branches in Wolverhampton, Walsall and Stourbridge.

The Darwall Garage Ltd taken over

It was reported in the Standard Triumph Review of March 1962:

As from January 29th the business of The Darwall Garage Ltd. of Darwall Street, WalsalI, was taken over by Hewitts Garages Ltd. of Stourbridge.

The Darwall Garage Ltd. which was founded by the late Mr. C. F. Woodall in 1915 has been a Distributor for StandardTriumph for 47 years.

The present Managing Director, Mr. C. E. Woodall, is now retiring after being in this family business for 44 years.

The business will be carried on in the name of Hewitts Garages Ltd. from the Darwall Street premises in Walsall as before. The family connection will be continued since Mr. G. R. RoIlitt, who has been with The Darwall Garage Ltd. for many years, is joining the Board of Hewitts Garages Ltd. and will remain at Walsall to manage the business.

Some adverts

The first two adverts I found on flickr and are from a collection of Wolverhampton Wanders football programmes.

Hewitts of Woverhampton 1982 advert

Hewitts of Woverhampton 1981 advert 02

Hewitts of Woverhampton 1981 advert

Hewitts Jaguar Wolverhampton 1982

Hewitt Automotive

Hewitt Automotive forecourt

As of March 2019 they claim to have been established since 1946 and now being run by the third generation of the family.

Triumph garages in Wolverhampton

April 1938:
West Central Garage Limited, School Street

April 1951:
Charles Attwood & Son, Ltd, Stafford Street,
Bernard P. Littleford, Albany Road,
Wolverhampton Motor Services Ltd, Clevedon Road,.

October 1955:
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362.
E L Bouts Motors Ltd, Stafford Street. 'Phone 23295.
Don Everall Ltd, Cleveland Road. 'Phone 23212.
Bernard P Littleford Ltd, 44 Albany Road. 'Phone 20467.
Motorities Ltd, Vane Street. 'Phone 20807.
Warstones Service Station, Warstones Road. 'Phone 37488.
West Central Garage Ltd, School Street. 'Phone 23601.
Cyril Williams (Motors) Ltd, Cleveland Street. 'Phone 24171.

August 1961:
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362
E L Bouts Motors Ltd, 27-28 Stafford Street. 'Phone 23295
Motorities Ltd, 85 Dudley Road. 'Phone 20807/8
Warstones Service Station, Warstones Road, Penn 'Phone 37488.
West Central Garage Ltd, School Street. 'Phone 23601 and 22593
Cyril Williams (Motors) Ltd, Cleveland Street. 'Phone 25374/7

February 1965:
Allens Auto Services Ltd, 6 Pipers Row. 'Phone 23167
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362
E L Bouts Motors Ltd, Merridale Lane. 'Phone 23295
Motorities Ltd, 85 Dudley Road. 'Phone 20807/8
Parade Service Garage (Wolverhampton) Ltd, St Georges Parade, 'Phone 26405
Warstones Service Station, Warstones Road, Penn 'Phone 37488.
Cyril Williams (Motors) Ltd, Cleveland Street. 'Phone 25374/7

September 1968:
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362
E L Bouts Motors Ltd, Merridale Lane. 'Phone 23295
Carlton Garage (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 177 Birmingham New Road 'Phone 26521
Hewitts of Woverhampton, Lower Stafford Street. 'Phone 29566

March 1970:
Distributor
Hewitts of Woverhampton, Lower Stafford Street. 'Phone 29566
Dealers
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362
E L Bouts Motors Ltd, Merridale Lane. 'Phone 23295

March 1972:
Distributor
Hewitts of Woverhampton, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1NX. 'Phone 29569
Dealers
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, 345/7 Newhampton Road West. 'Phone 20362

March 1974, May 1975:
Distributor
Hewitts of Woverhampton, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1NX. 'Phone 29566 parts 29569
Dealers
Barlow Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd, I Evans Street, Wolverhampton. 'Phone 20362/27632

March 1984:
Charles Clark Wolverhampton, PO Box 74 Chapel Ash & Stephenson Street WV3 0TX 'Phone 0902 311611

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If you have any more information or recollections about Hewitts 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 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:Hewitts rear window sticker posted to flickr by Hitman; Hewitts of Woverhampton 1981 and 1982 adverts posted to flickr by Miles McClagan; Hewitts Jaguar Wolverhampton 1982 advert posted to flickr by John; Hewitt Automotive forecourt photo from their website.

Roger Tiplady Garage of Ossett - Triumph Car Dealer 82

This short post is about Roger Tiplady Ltd, Dewsbury Garage, Ossett a Triumph car dealer.  Ossett is a market town in within the metropolitan district of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK.

This article was prompted by seeing a photo of a badge attached to the fascia of a early Triumph Herald owned by Gavin Radford.

Roger Tiplady Ltd dealer badge

Roger Tiplady Ltd dealer badge of glove box lid

And here is the 1962 Triumph Herald.

It was reported in the London Gazette that the Roger Tiplady Limited company was dissolved on 6 May 1975.

The garage sold Austin car and parts at sometime in its history.  Alan Cain has dealer directories showing them to be an Austin dealer from 1960 to 1964.

Triumph dealers in Osset

October 1961:
Red Lion Garage, Owl Lane, phone 561

The directories that I have dated February 1965, September 1968, March 1970, March 1972,  March 1974 and May 1975 show  no Triumph dealer.

Were Roger Tiplady Ltd actually ever appointed as an official Triumph car dealer?

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If you have any more information or recollections about Roger Tiplady Garage of Ossett, 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 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 .

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: Roger Tiplady Ltd dealer badge and Herald photos from Gavin Radford; Austin advert posted on facebook by Annie-Marie.

Standard Triumph car dealers in Sweden

Standard and Triumph car were exported all over the world. In some markets parts were also sent out so cars could be locally assembled.  Having already written about dealers in India, New Zealand, Finland and USA I will now cover Sweden.

Exhibition at Malmo

It was reported in the Standard Car Review dated October 1953:

ANA, Standard distributors for Sweden, recently held a special exhibition in the Tennis Stadium of Malmo. The exhibition was arranged in connection with the appointment of a new dealer. the AB Farmer & Motor.  Malmo is the third City of Sweden, situated in the most important agricultural district of of the country. and the exhibition was the biggest one ever arranged by one single company. It was given very good publicity in the Malmo papers and was visitcd by a great number of people. The visitors took a special interest in the Standard and Triumph products which were on display in the centre of the exhibition hall.

Dual control Vanguards in Stockholm

AB Stockholms Bilcentral, Standard Car Review 12-1951_image

It was reported in the Standard Car Review dated October 1951:

NOT less than twenty-three driving schools in Stockholm use Standard Vanguard cars for the training of learners and altogether there arc twenty-five Vanguards used for that purpose in Stockholm, all of them being equipped with dual control. Our photograph shows a delivery of five Standard Vanguard cars equipped with dual control for driving school duty in from of the premises of AB Stockholms Bilcentral, ANA-dealer in Stockholm. The cars were delivered 10 Sodermalms Driving School and the manager of the school, Mr E Jedback, is seen to left, together with Mr G Olson, General Sales
Manager of AB Stockholms Bilcentral.

Dealer list August 1974

Swedish dealer list August 1974

 Here is an extract from a British Leyland dealer directory for August 1974.

ANA Nykoping

ANA Nykoping advert

This fascinating advert posted by Andrew Bone on flickr is thought to be from 1956. I hope the the Triumph TR3 had a good heater.  The Vanguard Junior was better known in the UK as Standard 10.

1953 Standard Vanguard assembly

The ANA, Nyköping's factory was founded in 1937 and assembled many vehicles.  Of interest to this blog Triumph and Standard cars plus Ferguson tractors were built up at the factory.  The 25000 vehicle was a Standard Vanguard Estate.

BeWe Bil

Broderna Lindgrens Bilverkstad, Skelleftea Sweden

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If you have any more information or recollections about Standard Triumph dealers in Sweden 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 the other articles in this series.

Posts about dealers in India, New Zealand, Finland and USA

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: ANA Nykoping advert posted by AndrewBone to flickr: ANA 25000th Standardcar1952 photo from http://www.klassiker.nu/reportage/standard-hos-ana-1952-2479;  1953 Standard Vanguard assembly photo from https://sokisamlingar.sormlandsmuseum.se/;

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd - Triumph car dealers 81

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd of Broadway Garage, 360 London Road CR4 3XY feature in this post about a Standard Triumph car dealer in Mitcham.  They are listed in directories from October 1955 until May 1975.

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd advert 1961

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd the company which started on 3 March 1937 was dissolved 23 January 2007.

Allen Bros radio tv repairs advert 1952

The Allen Brothers also owned a radio and television repair shop, over the road from the garage, on the south corner of Broadway Gardens and London Road.

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd, Bond advert from Motor 14-11-1964

From 1953 Who’s Who in the Motor Industry which has been digitised by Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History:

Car and Light Commercial Vehicle Stockists.
360, London Road, Mitcham, Surrey.
Telephone: 0867.
Directors:
M.D. Allen.
Lt. Col. F.E. Manning O.B.E.
P.L. Smith.
H.F. Priest.

Going going gone

Like many other such buildings that ceased being used as car dealers the premises were reused and then demolished.  After Kwikfit stopped using the building it was knocked down and the site redeveloped.

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.going

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.going 02

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd.gone

Invoice, delivery note and rental contract

Thanks to Wade Brice for letting me share these invoices from his website. The garage like many others also rented out cars.

Allen Bros Rental Contract header 17 May 1985

Allen Bros delivery note 9 February 1985

Allen Bros invoice 13 November 1984

Dashboard Sticker

Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd dashboard sticker

Mr Manning and old cars

Old Crock owned by Mr Manning, Allens Garage, Cricket Green

Lt Col F E Manning OBE who was a director of Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd drove a 1900 Benz on the London to Brighton run in 1967 with his son.

Renault 1910 car outside Allen Bros.Garage, Mitcham

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd or any other Mitcham area Standard Triumph dealer 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 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: Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd + Old Crock owned by Mr Manning, Allens Garage, Cricket Green + Renault 1910 car outside Allen Bros.Garage, Mitcham photos from Merton archives; Allen Bros radio tv repairs advert 1952 + ; 1961 advert from Norwood News, via the British Newspaper Archive as found on the https://mitchamhistorynotes.wordpress.com website; Allen Bros (Mitcham) Ltd dashboard sticker photo posted to facebook by Stephen Roberts;