Albert Farnell Limited were based in Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The firm sold cars over a long period of time. For many years the firm operated out of a garage at 38 Manningham Lane, Bradford. Later they also had premises at Albert Farnell Ltd, White Cross Garage, Bradford Road, Guiseley, Leeds LS20 8NJ.
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| Albert Farnell - Manningham Lane, Bradford |
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| Dealer address stamp on Triumph Renown brochure |
.jpg "Albert Farnell - 38 Manningham Lane, Bradford - Triumph,Rover Cars (1970)") |
| Albert Farnell - 38 Manningham Lane, Bradford - Triumph,Rover Cars (1970) |
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| Albert Farnell Ltd of Bradford advert Motor 29 June 1974 |
Some history
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| Albert Farnell Cycle Engineer |
The Farnell Group was founded in 1882 by Albert Farnell as a shop selling pushbikes. He went on to stock the first motorised Rover pedal cycles and in 1904 built an ancestor of the first Rover car. Vertu Motors acquired the business in 2013. (1)
The firm, which was started in Bradford, moved its head office to Guiseley when the new dealership was built in 1984. The business was taken over by the Sunwin Group, a CO-OP enterprise in the year 2000. (2)
Plea for information
If you have any information or recollections about Albert Farnell Ltd or any other Bradford Standard Triumph car dealers 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
Source Credits: 1 https://www.vertumotors.com/news/major-investment-works-start-at-farnell-land-rover-bradford/ 2 https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8058871.brothers-tell-of-delight-as-car-firm-taken-over/
Picture credits: Albert Farnell - Manningham Lane, Bradford; Albert Farnell Cycle Engineer and Albert Farnell - 38 Manningham Lane, Bradford - Triumph,Rover Cars (1970) all from Bradford Timeline on flickr.
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