Portway Garage of Frome - Triumph Car Dealer 111

Portway Garage of Frome sold Triumph cars in Frome Somerset England. The garage building which is still in use by another business was on Christchurch Street East Frome. 

 

Triumph 2000 MB1

 

The first Triumph 2000 saloon? The chassis plate showing commission number MB1.

 

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This advert from the Somerset Standard newspaper dated 12 July 1974 including in the listing:

1963 Triumph 2000 chassis no 1. Mechanically good, good radial tyres, good interior/exterior, needs restoring. This car surely can only appreciate. £260.

Adverts

 

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Somerset_Standard_29_March_1963

Change of ownership

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Portway Garages Limited, company number 00786311 was incorporated 31 Dec 1963. The company has been dissolved. In 1965 the the then proprietor Mrs M Brown sold the business to Mr R Moseley.

Plea for information

If you have any more information or recollections about Portway Garage of Frome 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 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