Old NW car dealers

[Wacky Racer]

AnthonyC said:

Ensor Mercedes in Bury, now a Toyota dealer.

Yep, bottom of Bolton Street, opened about ten years ago lasted about two years IIRC, although Ensor as a company is still going, I notice they have a builders merchants in Blackburn.......

The Bury showroom is now RRG Toyota......

[NTEL]

God struth, I'm really showing my age now.....anyone remember Kennings (BL dealers I think). They had a few places dotted around.

[sider]

I'm only 26 and remember Kennings - well remember seeing stickers in cars when younger.

Anyone remember Kings Cars near the Greyhound roundabout in Leigh?? They closed a few years ago but had been there years - initially as a VW dealer, then moved to imports, then to used prestige specialists.

Edited by sider on Wednesday 11th March 20:21

[Wacky Racer]

NTEL said:

God struth, I'm really showing my age now.....anyone remember Kennings (BL dealers I think). They had a few places dotted around.

Yep, Had one not far away from you Dave on Dowson Rd, Hyde, near the junction with Market Street.

Remember sitting in an MGB GT in the showroom around 1969 thinking one day...............

Also, did they have one in Woolly Bridge, just past the turn off for Hadfield........

[4F6]

NTEL said:

God struth, I'm really showing my age now.....anyone remember Kennings (BL dealers I think). They had a few places dotted around.

Remember my dad looking at an Austin Princess at Kennings in Burnley. The site was demolished and replaced by Sainsburys which itself has gone and been replaced by Staples or somesuch.

Few more from around East Lancs -

Hebdens - long standing Austin Rover then Mazda franchise. Went late '80's, now a bathroom showroom
Seed Ford - had dealerships in Nelson & Colne, both now demolished.
Hindle & Walker - used to have massive Volvo presence, became part of Walker Farrimond which is now just a shadow of its former self with one surviving Citroen site.

Churchills Rover, Nelson - now a Spar shop.
Devaspeed Renault, Blackburn
Nightingales Renault - Gt Harwood - now a Chevrolet franchise
Jubilee Nissan / Datsun Burnley - now indian restuarant & Dominos pizza

[V8 GRF]

Stockholm Motors, Citroen Dealer on Garstang Road in Fulwood at the Texaco filling station. Went there with my Dad for a test drive in a CX I think, I do remember trying to persuade my dad to buy the new SM they had in, so that means I was about 10 .
Long since demolished.

[sider]

There's actually a garage in Widnes, on Ditton Road i think it is, between Widnes and Halewood, very run down - and it's got a really old Peugeot Talbot sign hanging off one elevation.

I think theres traces of Yugo there too.

I once stopped to have a nosey but there was an alsatian prowling - i think the former garage owner lives in the house next door.

[blueST]

Richard Cort Rover was a big dealership on Copsterhill Road in Oldham when I was a kid. My best mate's parent bought a brand new 820 fastback from them. We new a number of people who bought cars off them because they were employees at Aerospace in Chadderton and got a staff discount.

[mollytherocker]

blueST said:

Richard Cort Rover was a big dealership on Copsterhill Road in Oldham when I was a kid. My best mate's parent bought a brand new 820 fastback from them. We new a number of people who bought cars off them because they were employees at Aerospace in Chadderton and got a staff discount.

I used to deliver LDV/Rover parts there about 15 years ago when I was a trucker! You had to go around the back and up a steep ramp.

MTR

[blueST]

mollytherocker said:

You had to go around the back and up a steep ramp.

I shall be sitting a safe distance from you at the next TIPEC meeting then!

[darronwall]

mollytherocker said:

blueST said:

Richard Cort Rover was a big dealership on Copsterhill Road in Oldham when I was a kid. My best mate's parent bought a brand new 820 fastback from them. We new a number of people who bought cars off them because they were employees at Aerospace in Chadderton and got a staff discount.

I used to deliver LDV/Rover parts there about 15 years ago when I was a trucker! You had to go around the back and up a steep ramp.

MTR

just looked at your profile pic and noticed my silver car sat a car away! it was a good day that,i will always remember the 2 grey gt3s,extremely slow gt3s! one of them being driven by a spectacled chap in a sparco suit and shoes who desperately needed a few lessons

[sider]

Saw a sticker on a battered old M reg Rover 400 today whilst out walking the baby.

'Tannery Farm Garage, St Helens'

Rover main dealer i believe.

[mollytherocker]

darronwall said:

mollytherocker said:

blueST said:

Richard Cort Rover was a big dealership on Copsterhill Road in Oldham when I was a kid. My best mate's parent bought a brand new 820 fastback from them. We new a number of people who bought cars off them because they were employees at Aerospace in Chadderton and got a staff discount.

I used to deliver LDV/Rover parts there about 15 years ago when I was a trucker! You had to go around the back and up a steep ramp.

MTR

just looked at your profile pic and noticed my silver car sat a car away! it was a good day that,i will always remember the 2 grey gt3s,extremely slow gt3s! one of them being driven by a spectacled chap in a sparco suit and shoes who desperately needed a few lessons

It was a great day wasnt it! I had my 993 serviced about a month later and they rang me up to ask me what the hell I had done to my tyres!!!

MUST do another one this year.

MTR

[B1G GK]

mollytherocker said:

blueST said:

Richard Cort Rover was a big dealership on Copsterhill Road in Oldham when I was a kid. My best mate's parent bought a brand new 820 fastback from them. We new a number of people who bought cars off them because they were employees at Aerospace in Chadderton and got a staff discount.

I used to deliver LDV/Rover parts there about 15 years ago when I was a trucker! You had to go around the back and up a steep ramp.

MTR

Richard Cort I think used to be on Huddersfield Road where Peugeot was.

BOC Oldham was Mitsubishi and is now i think that great car marque Kia.
Duncan Charles - Volvo, with Duncans of Oldham Misubishi then Nissan behind it (I did my apprenticeship there)
Volvo has gone now.
Tom Mellor Ford - Rochdale
AFG Nissan - Huddersfield Road, Oldham.
Skyways Vauxhall Chadderton, used to be called 'Hills', the M60 runs where that was,
There was also a Toyota garage on Broadway where the Total garage is now opposite the Sportsmans.

Lotus in Alderley Edge
Stratton's on the Wilmslow to Altrincham road next to the petrol station, loads of exotica on 1 pitch.
As said previously Fastlane, Red Rose, and Aiden Piers - I remember them having a mint SWB Audi Quatti in there.

[Nolar Dog]

B1G GK said:

BOC Oldham was Mitsubishi and is now i think that great car marque Kia.

I don't think it's Kia but I can't think what it is at the moment. OMC Ford on Manchester Street/Frederick St junction now do Kia though.

B1G GK said:

Duncan Charles - Volvo, with Duncans of Oldham Misubishi then Nissan behind it (I did my apprenticeship there)
Volvo has gone now.

Westway Nissan is still there though.

B1G GK said:

Tom Mellor Ford - Rochdale

Now OMC.

B1G GK said:

AFG Nissan - Huddersfield Road, Oldham.

What's there now? There is the Fiat dealer on the corner at Cross St. lights and the empty former Langford Thompson Citroen dealership.

B1G GK said:

Skyways Vauxhall Chadderton, used to be called 'Hills', the M60 runs where that was

It moved to Greengate didn't it and it's still there but as Pentagon.
The Oldham branch moved from Skyway/Pentagon on Park Road and is now just opposite B&Q warehouse (with Pentagon Saab)

B1G GK said:

There was also a Toyota garage on Broadway where the Total garage is now opposite the Sportsmans.

Remember it well. Culvers Toyota. It's a Total petrol filling station now.

B1G GK said:

Lotus in Alderley Edge

Kinsey Jones. Been gone ages.

B1G GK said:

Stratton's on the Wilmslow to Altrincham road next to the petrol station, loads of exotica on 1 pitch.

Used to work there myself.

Other "missing names" to note are A&A Motor co. on Ashton road just through Bardsley.
Used to sell prestige and sports stuff but it was subjected to several attacks years ago, was empty for a while and is now a car wash/caravan sales.

Also the same guy (Anwar Assasi) had Styal Motor Company right at the junction of Ringway Rd./Styal Rd. near the airport, next to the Texaco petrol station.
That's been closed for years too as he moved to Water St. in Wilmslow and traded as Chartoak.

Those were the days.

[Niiick]

Blakes Ford, Stormont Ford, Skyway Ford - Liverpool

B&K Motors - BL/Austin Rover - Liverpool

Livock & Edwards and Hepburns - Austin Rover - Crosby

Woodwards - BL/Austin Rover - Formby (tescos for last 15 years)

[B1G GK]

Nolar Dog said:

B1G GK said:

Tom Mellor Ford - Rochdale

Now OMC.

B1G GK said:

AFG Nissan - Huddersfield Road, Oldham.

What's there now? There is the Fiat dealer on the corner at Cross St. lights and the empty former Langford Thompson Citroen dealership.

Nolar Dog said:

Other "missing names" to note are A&A Motor co. on Ashton road just through Bardsley.
Used to sell prestige and sports stuff but it was subjected to several attacks years ago, was empty for a while and is now a car wash/caravan sales.

Tom Mellor where Matalan now is in Rochdale

AFG is now Caladonia Fiat

A&A Ashton Road, did some work for a guy there

Edited by B1G GK on Monday 23 March 19:04

[sider]

Does anyone remember Reynolds 'The Power behind the wheel'?

They had a massive place on the way into Southport but shut down almost overnight about 10 yrs ago. I think they had a fuel division - remember seeing one of their old tankers a couple of years ago.

[Warbbby]

On the way out of Preston towards Blackpool an independent garage that until recently was a Chrysler dealer but to men of a certain age ie. me was and always will be Jag House.

[sider]

Warbby, i know Jag in Preston is down on the docks. Speaking of which - was there a Rolls Royce dealer down there at one time??

Hatfields Jeep Chrysler closed a couple of years ago, and ive got a mate who lives literally a stones throw round the corner - every man and his dog haved looked to buy it to turn it into a 'luxury cars specialist'. Not a great location in my opinion though - William Loughran is far better placed.

Imagine testing driving a car from a dealer on Blackpool Road - it'd be a great way of showing you how it performs at 15 mph and in traffic jams.

Is the Toyota dealer still there in Blackpool road??