Period Photos of Garages / Streets / Cars

[Neil W]

Following on from ‘Another Peters’ post on Period Photo of Stag – I was brousing looking for a photo of Wadham Stringer Southend where my car was 1st sold & found this site / collection of 1108 period photos –

Click title under the photo & more amazing info pops up – must of taken the guy months / years to collect.

There is a photo of a Stag in amongst them I think in Edinburgh !

Hope link works as if it is raining in the UK it will pass the time - me I'm in Curacao Dutch Antiles Working while the Stag is garaged for the summer until October

https://www.flickriver.com/groups/1261441@N23/pool/interesting/

Neil

[38rover]

Nice well worth a look shows you how big BL were in those days

[Another Peter]

Now, there's a coincidence.

My Stag was supplied by an Edinburgh dealer...

[Neil W]

Now, there's a coincidence.

My Stag was supplied by an Edinburgh dealer...

Now, there's another coincidence - I was born in Edinburgh - was the Dealer Rossleigh, Carmichael's, Hall's or Baxters ?

I bet is is one I forgetten about !!


Oh here are the Stags in Edinburgh - the last photo of the 6 says it all

http://www.flickriver.com/search/edinburgh+triumph+stag/

Neil

[Nigel W]

What you forget is how empty the roads were back then. There are so few cars in the background in almost all of the photos.

[milothedog]

Great link Neil, Thank you.

I remember all of the ones in Brixton, Wimbledon, Balham and Streatham pictured in the Photo's. The one of Wadham Stringer on Brixton Hill was about 1/2 mile from where I worked and served my apprenticeship. (Esott & Co) This is a very old picture That I found online some time ago.
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If you can find some old footage of the first Brixton Riot's you can see how it looked when I worked there when it was a Rootes dealership the idots set light to a Transit in the road outside. It's a timber wholesalers now There was also a very large Ford dealer next door called Adlards and the other side of us was a BMC dealership called Prin & Steven's. Further down the road were one of the biggest motorhome dealers at the time, that was Wilson's motor caravans.

Happy memories


Ian

[Another Peter]

Now, there's another coincidence - I was born in Edinburgh - was the Dealer Rossleigh, Carmichael's, Hall's or Baxters ?

I bet is is one I forgetten about !!


Oh here are the Stags in Edinburgh - the last photo of the 6 says it all

http://www.flickriver.com/search/edinburgh+triumph+stag/

Neil

Mine was supplied by Rossleigh to a London based company - guess they must have had an office in Edinburgh too.

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[Neil W]

Rossleigh were a very famous Dealership in Edinburgh from 1890 to a few years ago when it went to Rossleigh Heron to Stratstone to Pentland Jaguar.
Your Triumph in 1976 would have come from their premises off the Glasgow Road at the West Side Of Edinburgh in Corstorphine / Murryfield area on Gylemuir Road ( The Autoplex ) now a Tesco / Pets at Home / Currys PC World Complex. between Gyle Public Park & B 701.
They also had a 'Shop' Dealership in Shandwick Place at the end of Princess Street but that was more like a fancy London Dealership in Mayfair & displayed cars in a busy shopping area.

It has long been redeveloped but their new premises did move onto the main road not far away on A8 now Pentland Jaguar.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Rossleigh

On Internet found a link to the Triumph Dolomite Club post with 2 period adverts of Rossleigh on page 3 of 7 talking about Dealerships.

http://forum.triumphdolomite.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19637&start=30

Actually a very interesting thread from page 1 as the topic is 'Triumph Dealerships and Distributors' which lists them all.

Neil