Peat Road Motors

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For some strange reason, I find myself searching about them online, I used to work for them a long way back.

Anyway, I found this

Anyone else work for them?

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RBrown said:

I knew the owners. Drove a Bentley at the time .....not a Lada!

That was Andrew Strang from memory, I believe his father started the company?

A very unassuming guy, leaving most of the work to the directors. (And some of them were a choice bunch!) Trying to think of their names, at the moment.

Alf Hennigen (sp?) was one - Ended up owning the old Calex site in Kilmarnock.

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Excellent stuff as ever HendryG!

From memory, the Capital Motors link was some directors setting up a new business, using similar advertising tact.

There was a director (?) that bought Squires Gate Motors, a Citroen Dealer in Blackpool, that used similar advertising - they only lasted a few years before a big group took over though. (I was there as part of my job when they took on Citroen)

The presence in Hillington was their Head Office, and Tradeaways, or Tearaways as we called it, a used (very well used) sales centre.

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Yep, the Tradeways name was used for the Trade part of the Robert Wyper Dreghorn site (Ex AFG) in the late 90's, it was used as a way of disposing of the Trade Cars, without going to Traders or Auction. (Stating the obvious I suppose)