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Hi Surf
pm sent
Turvey's was my closest friend Andrew Turvey father's Garage

He is in Montreal at the moment, having watched his son and my ex-team F3 driver Oliver Turvey, competing in Formula E at the weekend
I would like to buy the badge for him as a gift
Trevor

Thanks Simon for the info and Jack for the cracking picture.

Trevor PM sent.

Called at the site of my local ex Kennings garage in Matlock, Derbys. tonight, now a brand new Mcdonalds .........30 odd years ago I was buying Mini bits....tonight it was a big Mac....

The picture of Turvey's garage looks just like the BMC dealer that used to be on Blossom Street North in York.

It's now a Premier Inn

mk1 wrote:The picture of Turvey's garage looks just like the BMC dealer that used to be on Blossom Street North in York.

It's now a Premier Inn

Do you know where in York the Alfa dealer used to be? Going back 20 years now, bought a cheap high mileage 155 there.

Sorry, No idea.

Going back 40 years Alwyn Kershaw was an Alfa dealer in York. His garage was somewhere on the road past the Railway Museum.

Both my father and father in law had Alfasuds from him in the seventies.

Eric.

magna0266 wrote:Going back 40 years Alwyn Kershaw was an Alfa dealer in York. His garage was somewhere on the road past the Railway Museum.

Both my father and father in law had Alfasuds from him in the seventies.

Eric.

alwyn kershaws garage is on the road to Stamford bridge, he used to have a rolling road, but that vanished a long time ago.

I'm not sure if he is still even running it.

Anyone know who would have been the BMC or Morris dealership in Carlisle in 1963?

Not the answer you want, but nostalgic just the same for me Mini Minor. I was a 15 year old engineering apprentice living at Hadrians Camp in Carlisle starting in January 1963. You can just imagine what it was like...... that bad winter and me, one of the few Southerners who'\d had a sheltered life at boarding school and all that palaver. There for 3 years (we used to call it tears)........... Happy days - or daze

miniminor wrote:Anyone know who would have been the BMC or Morris dealership in Carlisle in 1963?

Graham Roberts Ltd in Botchergate were the distributors at one time. Moores Garage in Lowther Street were Morris dealers according to my BMC dealer list and so were Reah Bros in Lonsdale Street. I think my list is a little earlier than 1963 but it's a starting point at least.

Old English White wrote:

miniminor wrote:Anyone know who would have been the BMC or Morris dealership in Carlisle in 1963?

Graham Roberts Ltd in Botchergate were the distributors at one time. Moores Garage in Lowther Street were Morris dealers according to my BMC dealer list and so were Reah Bros in Lonsdale Street. I think my list is a little earlier than 1963 but it's a starting point at least.

Just wondering where mine would have been sold from originally, first registered in Carlisle in June 1963, no way of knowing for sure I suppose.

miniminor wrote:

Old English White wrote:

miniminor wrote:Anyone know who would have been the BMC or Morris dealership in Carlisle in 1963?

Graham Roberts Ltd in Botchergate were the distributors at one time. Moores Garage in Lowther Street were Morris dealers according to my BMC dealer list and so were Reah Bros in Lonsdale Street. I think my list is a little earlier than 1963 but it's a starting point at least.

Just wondering where mine would have been sold from originally, first registered in Carlisle in June 1963, no way of knowing for sure I suppose.

My car has a Westmorland plate, first lived in Keswick, but was originally sent to Dias Bros in Carlisle who where bought up by County Garages.

miniminor wrote:

Old English White wrote:

miniminor wrote:Anyone know who would have been the BMC or Morris dealership in Carlisle in 1963?

Graham Roberts Ltd in Botchergate were the distributors at one time. Moores Garage in Lowther Street were Morris dealers according to my BMC dealer list and so were Reah Bros in Lonsdale Street. I think my list is a little earlier than 1963 but it's a starting point at least.

Just wondering where mine would have been sold from originally, first registered in Carlisle in June 1963, no way of knowing for sure I suppose.

My Carlisle reg'd Sept '67 MK1 Mini Minor went to Graham and Roberts but was eventually sold by Masons at High Hesket in Sept '68 (so it must of sat around unloved for a year somewhere).

My Carlisle reg'd Sept '67 MK1 Mini Minor went to Graham and Roberts but was eventually sold by Masons at High Hesket in Sept '68 (so it must of sat around unloved for a year somewhere).[/quote]

Is yours an "AO" reg?
My '63 was originally 14 LAO (wish I had that number now, transferred in 1994 and now on a BMW)
It was then given an age related plate of AAO773A. (Loads of older 3 letter 3 digit cars were re allocated "A" suffix plates upon transfer of their original numbers and look odd because of it, fortunately my '63 is exactly the correct age for an "A" plate.

I'm looking for old photo's or any other information relating to John Goodall Ltd. in Dunfermline. It was a large building (old stables) in the centre of Dunfermline, demolished in the 80's to make way for a shopping centre. Al (Pandora) has kindly provided some information but anything else would be of interest. This is where my Wolseley was dispatched to from the works in 1967.

20180315_215232 by Robin Derrick, on Flickr

My mother bought her first and only new car from Goodalls. It was a 1973 teal blue 1300 estate. I remember the workshop being a very 'old school' type place.

A search found two pictures of the workshop / garage.

https://www.facebook.com/oldDunfermline ... 08/?type=3

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=5B40B08F

IAIN wrote:My mother bought her first and only new car from Goodalls. It was a 1973 teal blue 1300 estate. I remember the workshop being a very 'old school' type place.

A search found two pictures of the workshop / garage.

https://www.facebook.com/oldDunfermline ... 08/?type=3

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=5B40B08F

Cheers Iain. It appears to have been an old coachworks run by the same family before son and grandson took it on as a garage.

miniminor wrote: Is yours an "AO" reg?
My '63 was originally 14 LAO (wish I had that number now, transferred in 1994 and now on a BMW)
It was then given an age related plate of AAO773A. (Loads of older 3 letter 3 digit cars were re allocated "A" suffix plates upon transfer of their original numbers and look odd because of it, fortunately my '63 is exactly the correct age for an "A" plate.

Yep, RAO 662G. My MK2 Austin Cooper went to Dias in Carlisle, it was TAO reg'd.

Dias & Co, Graham & Roberts & County Motors, Carlisle.