Austin Main Agents / Dealers

[Douglas Alderson]

So far I have details of 78 dealers with details (adverts, badges etc) and probably nearly 3,000 listed, please keep the details coming.

Below are some period images of Gordon England, some intresting details.


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1927 8 The Sketch - Wednesday 10 August 1927 Image © Illustrated London News Group.  All rights reserved. Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk).


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1927 10 The Graphic - Saturday 15 October 1927 Image © Illustrated London News Group.  All rights reserved. Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk).

[Fourfoldroot]

So far I have details of 78 dealers with details (adverts, badges etc) and probably nearly 3,000 listed, please keep the details coming

From 1935 AAL. Middlesex registered EMT42



http://tinypic.com/m/jv3ps7/3

[Douglas Alderson]

Austin Main Agents / Dealers, the search continues.

Thanks to all who have sen me information and badges most of which I have found information on some I can not find any info at the moment.  Tony Betts has kindly send me photos of his badges and he has manged to get me completely stumped with this badge which I though would be easy to track down.

The Dealer is Water's Garage and I believed the location to be Burchersdory, but having not found the location I think it may be Burgherdrop but this is in South Africa, I have not asked Tony if he knows where it came from, so reading this may be a surprise to him as it was me.  Although there was a Waters Garage in Coventry.


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[Tony Betts]

WOW.
That must have taken some time.

It wouldn't surprise me if its South africa, I think there is another in my collection from South africa. Not that I've been there and bought them myself.

In the early days of collecting when things were cheaper I would buy three or four at a time, so didn't always worry witch garage they were from.

If you want it, and if I can find it. I have a few / not many. Old garage receipts for spares bought. They may have come in with cars over the years.

Keep the good work up, Tony.

[Douglas Alderson]

I thought this dealer would be easy to find, Reg. Brown Aubrey Street Hereford.  Yet all I find is Brown cars with where the reg is stated in an add.

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Image form connor_2012 on eBay, thanks.

[Douglas Alderson]

It does help when a news paper does a series of articles detailing the dealer, what makes they where agents for an a photo of the garage.

So who can work out the car parked on the road in font of the garage?

   
1936 Norwood News - Friday 08 May 1936 Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD

[Mike Costigan]

Looks like a Wolseley Hornet to me, probably with a Swallow body.

[Adrian Payne]

Hello Douglas
just noticed some postcards on Ebay from seller Headofthoughts that might be of some interest. Several listed eg.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-POSTCARD-...SwH-RcTzOY.
Hope that works.
Adrian.

[Dave Mann]

Here's another 
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[NickB]

And another for you. Attached to a car in Switzerland.
Boorman and son, Woking, Surrey