Austin Main Agents / Dealers

[andrew34ruby]

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

Batley and Dewsbury are only about 4 miles apart, with the same Bradford Road running through both. There is still an undertaker called Box to this day, listed as Bradford Road, Dewsbury.