Lavender Hill Garage of Enfield- Triumph Car Dealer 90

Lavender Hill Garage of 78 The Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 8JF feature in  this blog post about Standard Triumph car dealers.

Lavender Hill Garage - Enfield rear window sticker

The business was established in 1948 and run by the Medcalf family for much of the time.  Several different companies used the Lavender Hill Garage name over the years.

Lavender Hill Garage - London parade

Triumph car dealers in Enfield

I have a record of Lavender Hill Garage being listed as a Triumph car dealer in 1959, August 1961, February 1965, September 1968, March 1970, March 1972, March 1974, June 1984, March 1988 and May 1991.

In March 1972, March 1974 Walters (Motors) Ltd, 356 High Street, Ponders End, Enfield, EN3 4DF

March 1988 Automechs Garage (Enfield) Ltd, Alma Road, EN3 7BB

Some old paperwork

Lavender Hill Garage, London Invoice 10 August 1983

Still in business during the Rover Group era as can be seen from this plastic MOT envelope.

Lavender Hill Garage - Enfield MOT_Plastic Pocket

St Christopher badge

An unused Lavender Hill Garage St Christopher badge was recently found by Murdo DA Macleod.  It turned up when Murdo asked the garage who were still trading for information about his Dolomite.

MG Motors dealer

After the Rover Group ceased trading Lavender Hill Garage took on a franchise with the MG Motors group.

Richard T Moore

The Lavender Hill Garage site is now operated by Richard Moore under the Richard T Moore brand.
At the time this photo was taken the Lavender Hill Garage sign can still be seen under the canopy.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Lavender Hill Garage of Enfield 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: Lavender Hill Garage - Enfield MOT_Plastic Pocket + Lavender Hill Garage, London Invoice 10 August 1983 from my own collection; Lavender Hill Garage - Enfield rear window sticker