Saturday, November 09, 2019

New Milton, Hampshire UK - Triumph Car Dealers 21D

This post is about the two Triumph car dealers that I am aware of that traded in New Milton, Hampshire UK.  Coopers (New Milton) Garages Limited and Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd.

Coopers (New Milton) Garages Limited

Thanks to the Milton Heritage Society for the above and from whose website I quote:
Coopers garage, in its heyday was the regional distributer for Ford motor cars. Peter Cooper entered many motor rallies and later went on to become chairman of the BARC which ran the British Grand Prix.
Coopers Garages advert from Ibsley race program 30 April 1955
Coopers Garages advert from Ibsley race program 30 April 1955


The company Coopers (New Milton) Garages Limited was established in September 1930. 

Coopers Garage of New Milton rear window sticker
Coopers Garage of New Milton rear window sticker

Coopers Garage of New Milton key fob
Coopers Garage Ltd of New Milton key fob

Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd

Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd 1964 advert
Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd 1964 advert

Newmil Garage New Milton key fob
Newmil Garage New Milton key fob
Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd was a sister company to Rickman Bros Ltd the famous motorbike firm.
New Mil Garage closing down 1998
New Mil Garage closing down 1998

New Mil Garage closing down 1998 image 2
New Mil Garage closing down 1998 image 2

Triumph car dealer address in New Milton

October 1955, 1959, August 1961, February 1965: 
Area dealer
Coopers (New Milton) Garages Limited, Fernhill Lane - phone 21/2

September 1968 no dealer

March 1970, March 1972:
Michael House Motors Limited, Central Garage, Whitefield Road, - phone 614489

March 1974 no dealer

March 1988, May 1991:
Newmil Garage Ltd, 41 Old Mil;ton Road, BH25 6DJ

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about these garages, 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  Stanbourne Motor Co Ltd of Bournemouth blog post 21

Link to Motor Macs Ltd and Tice & Son Ltd - Bournemouth - Triumph Car Dealers 21a

Link to Moore's Central Garage Ltd of Milford on Sea - Triumph car dealers 21C

Link to face book 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: Newmil Garage (New Milton) Ltd 1964 advert from a page of the matchams 27 March 1964 program on www.daveriley.weebly.com; Coopers Garage of New Milton rear window sticker and key fob images from Chris Hodder via facebook; Newmil Garage New Milton key fob photo posted to facebook by Neil Allen

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