Austin Main Agents / Dealers

[Douglas Alderson]

George Box  were suppliers of funeral hearses to the undertaker trade and at one time supplied 40 businesses. One can assume they used Austin chassis as they were listed as Austin dealers from at least 1929 and still operating 10 years later at premises in Bradford Road Batley Yorkshire. Their corporate head office was indeed at Dewsbury but another firm E.A.Golby had the Austin franchise there.

cheers  Russell

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628    sept     1928
628a             1929
915               1932
915a             1933
915b             1934
915c             1935
1388             1936
1388a            1937
1670             1938/9     

others may have the numbers for years  30, 31       cheers  Russell

Hi Russell

Thanks for the info it looks like Austin just used the next number for the next publication I guess the letter suffix is when there where minor changes, the Association has a 1932 copy which they have offered to lend to me it will be interesting to see how much they differ from the ones I have already seen.

I have found a who’s who for the 1929 Yorkshire Motor Show in a news paper it is interesting what terminology they use to promote themselves, the ones below are list for Austin some are replicated under other makes.

Leeds
Central Garage Ltd Main Wholesale and Retail Agents 
Appleyard of Leeds Ltd Official Austin Agents
Geo. A. Campbell Sales and Service Agent
Huddersfield 
Rippon Bros Every make of car supplied
Bradford
Hayley Motor Co Authorised Austin Agent
Dewsbury
E. A. Golby “1930 Models in stock” in 1929 add
Batley
George Box Ltd Main Austin Agents