old garages

[Pete]

London?

[Pete]

JC’s gaff

[Old English White]

London?

No Pete, that is Morris Garages in St. Aldates Oxford. The modified building is now the Oxford Court building and quite often shown on TV when a prominent court case is ongoing. I remember going there there regularly to collect and deliver cars and parts in years gone by. It was a grand place!
That is a great photo and the MG1100 is wearing a local Oxford registration number from, I think, 1962. It looks to be a LHD export model doesn't it?

[Exminiman]

London?

No Pete, that is Morris Garages in St. Aldates Oxford. The modified building is now the Oxford Court building and quite often shown on TV when a prominent court case is ongoing. I remember going there there regularly to collect and deliver cars and parts in years gone by. It was a grand place!
That is a great photo and the MG1100 is wearing a local Oxford registration number from, I think, 1962. It looks to be a LHD export model doesn't it?

Here you go, think this is it, who would think a building would evolve from a garage to a court building !

Oxford Court Building.jpg

[Old English White]

That is indeed the present Court building and former Morris Garages. It was built in the 1930s and had a lift on the ground floor to hoist cars up to the upper floor service departments! The parts dept. was at the rear and I was a frequent visitor. The staff wouldn't serve you unless you could quote the chassis number of the car in question. I had an MG Midget in the 1970s and the chassis number - GAN4 54403 - is still imprinted on my brain from all those years ago - although I have trouble remembering my date of birth or mobile telephone number nowadays!

[Pete]

Berkshire :

[rpb203]

Actually top end of Dukes Ride in Crowthorne.
Used to get most of my parts from there.
Had a great team on the service reception and always helpful.
Now long gone sadly.

[Costafortune]

London?

No Pete, that is Morris Garages in St. Aldates Oxford. The modified building is now the Oxford Court building and quite often shown on TV when a prominent court case is ongoing. I remember going there there regularly to collect and deliver cars and parts in years gone by. It was a grand place!
That is a great photo and the MG1100 is wearing a local Oxford registration number from, I think, 1962. It looks to be a LHD export model doesn't it?

It's a US market two door on a fake number plate.

[Costafortune]

That is indeed the present Court building and former Morris Garages. It was built in the 1930s and had a lift on the ground floor to hoist cars up to the upper floor service departments! The parts dept. was at the rear and I was a frequent visitor. The staff wouldn't serve you unless you could quote the chassis number of the car in question. I had an MG Midget in the 1970s and the chassis number - GAN4 54403 - is still imprinted on my brain from all those years ago - although I have trouble remembering my date of birth or mobile telephone number nowadays!

Hartwells Kidlington were always the best imo.

[3disco]

My mother purchased a metro from AC Barnes and was the first time I had seen the then new KV6 engine in a Rover 825.

[Pete]

Woodcote of Epsom, became University Motors….

[Pete]

Can’t remember where…

[goff]

Kennings Sheffield .

[Nick W]

Drive past this quite a bit, still looks the same although I noticed they'd scaffolded it up recently.

[Peter Laidler]

Pete's threrad re Woodcote motor co, (above) Nice number on the 1100 saloon, if your name was Peter Laidler!!

[Exminiman]

Woodcote of Epsom, became University Motors….

Assuming this was a new car, did they really charge for oil ?

woodcote motor company.jpeg

[Old English White]

A tank of petrol I assume??

[mk1]

4 Galls Shell = Petrol, not oil.

[Exminiman]

Argh yes, that makes sense

You still got charged for Antifreeze though

[peasantslife]

I think if you lived through 'the big freeze' a weeks wages on antifreeze only a few months later would have been money well spent!