Standard Triumph Works Directory

Did you work at the Standard or Triumph – at Canley, Radford, Banner Lane, Northey Road, Allesley, Tile Hill, Western Avenue (London), Bordesley Green (Birmingham), Speke (Liverpool), Berkeley Square (London) or any of the associated sites/companies associated with Standard Triumph? If so, we’d love to hear from you to build a database of names associated with the Standard and Triumph company. Read More HERE. You may notice adverts on the site. You can help this site by clicking on them which supports the archive. Thank you.

List of Names (Surnames First)

Submit a Ex-employee
To add a name, click on the ‘Submit a Name’ link above.
Please add the surname first. Use the format: Smith, John in the name field, then add a description; here you can include a role, location, service dates etc plus any other information you think may be of interest, finishing with your name (you may be submitting on behalf of a family member). Don’t worry how much – or little – you write in the description box – everything helps!
PLEASE NOTE: By using the ‘submit name’ element on the site we DO NOT get any record of you or your email and sometimes we’d love to get in touch with you, but we can’t! Please either drop your email details on the entry (don’t worry we won’t publish that) or a separate email to say ‘hello’.
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We’d love you to get involved with this project. You can email us your info to iwas@standardtriumphworks.co.uk or post a name directly on the ‘submit name’ link.


Update:
The archive has now over 4,500 name entries and with 871 articles on the site. During May, 2018 we reached 100,000 website hits.  May 2019 we reached 500,000 website hits. February 2022 we achieved one million hits! Take a look at the Latest News posts to see the articles.

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Thank you for all the submissions in the database. In addition some people have articles, info, memories and photos. We’ll show everything, that comes in, at some point soon, please bear with us. We still need more… Email your stories today!

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This website was launched February 1, 2017.

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LATEST POSTS

• Alf Welch – Service Instructor in Market Promotion and Training - On the first anniversary of the launch of this website archive we thought we’d write something about Alf Welch.
• Strikes! - Strikes were a huge part of the motor industry, arguably the leading factor into its downfall. If there was a dispute at BMC, for instance, the unions would bring in all the other manufacturers so the ‘Big Six’ would all be effected. 
• Veronica Lenehan - Not sure of year – thinking late 60’s. I am in the middle with very short hair. The woman with a bun was Eileen and the guy on the right is Peter Murray. Looks like we are playing cards during lunch. More to follow…
• The Last Innsbruck – Derek Hitchins - I started in August 1959 and for over 20 happy years I worked in the new Assembly Hall known as the Rocket Range as a Line Inspector and over the years I was promoted to Quality Foreman. When the plant closed I accepted a position in the South African motor industry in Pretoria where I now live.
• Alan Woodier - Alan Woodier. Service: 1968 to 1975. I started my 5 year apprenticeship in 1968 after leaving Whitley Abbey School even though I lived in Allesley Park. I wanted to be a body development engineer but the options were every other year it was body and then trim development and my year was trim so trim it was …

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• The Last Triumph TR6 - A fantastic photo from July 1976. It seems there were numerous ‘last car built’ photographs for each model. The last official TR6 built was CF58328 and built on 15th July 1976, which would indicate when this marvellous photo was taken. Any familiar faces, let us know?
• Triumph Engineering Reunion - Triumph Engineering Reunion – Harry Webster bequeathed funding for an annual get together for Triumph apprentices and last Friday was the day we all got together for our 2016 dinner. It’s a great evening out and a great place to catch up with old friends and reminisce about the good times we all had working …

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• Trevor Worthington – Apprentice of the Year 1962 - Apprenticed 1958-63 and Apprentice of the Year in 1962. Selected to go to VW on an exchange visit organised by the Institute of The Motor Industry 1964. I joined the Quality Department in 1964, became Quality Service Liaison Engineer then Investigation Supervisor located in the dungeon under the Spares Department.
• Diana Coulson – Typist - Diana Coulson, typist for five years in Specifications Dept., Fletch. North, was the recipient of wedding gifts from her colleagues.
• Leonard Elwood – Chief Architect - Chief Architect. All building at Standard Triumph was designed and produced ‘in-house’ – Standard Triumph had bricklayers/builders/electricians/plumbers etc.
• Dorothy and Geoffrey Hope - I began working at The Standard Triumph at the age of fourteen years.  I was originally expected to go into service when I left school, but during the war, each evening we had a family who escaped the bombing by coming to stay with us.  It was this family that encouraged me to aim for …

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• Edward Ken Wadsworth - My father (Edward Ken Wadsworth) came from Manchester and started working at The Standard Motor Co as a qualified electrician and progressed to the position of Plant Director responsible for all maintenance and tool room departments that included Canley, Fletchhamstead North and South, Radford and Western Avenue. I ( Peter Wadsworth) first went to visit …

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• James Harland Willis – 45 years service! - Wonderful to see your website and fascinating photos. My Dad, James Harland Willis, was born 3/12/1919 in Whitby. He joined The Standard Motor Company on the Apprenticeship scheme on 21/2/1936 ( a five year scheme as a “Fitter & Machinist” Starting wage for year one 12 shillings a week rising to 24 shillings a week …

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• Len Davies – Analytical Chemist - Len Davies, an analytical chemist in Chromatography and Spectroscopy Laboratory, married Miss Mary Garvie, a former secretary at Fletch. North.
• Bill Gun – Finish Herald Trim - BILL GUN (66), a finisher in Herald Trim, Canley, had several presents when he retired.
• Home Sales, 1960 - “I worked in the Home Sales at Canley. I started in 1960. My boss was Mr Rushworth and my under boss was Mr Russell. I was there when the Triumph Herald was built and sold. We sold the cars to the distributers. “
• F. D. Wenman – Triumph Accessory Marketing Supervisor - A series of competitions have been held among Triumph Distributors in Britain, the accent being on the display of Stanpart approved accessories.
• Jimmy Knox - My dad worked at the standard Triumph Plant Canley on, I believe, the final finish line. I am not sure what cars my dad worked on but I believe they included the herald and the spitfire. My dad worked at the Canley Plant from 1960 to 1980/1 and took redundancy from the plant which I believe …

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• Jennifer Hargreaves – Dealer Development - Miss Jennifer Hargreaves, a secretary in Dealer Development, Fletch. South, was married at Bulkington.
• My Job at Standard - By the late fifties, the electricians at Canley had devised a system whereby when car shells came from Liverpool they were hoisted by crane onto what was called skids, on the second floor. We then took charge with an electric panel in the basement of the building, among the stores. The track was on the …

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• Amazing response! - Thank you everyone for submitting to the site – and for the positive feedback. With a promotional push this week the entries have risen to 611 records. There are a huge number of emails from those that have contacted us, some complete with amazing detail and even photographs that we’ll add on too in due course. …

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• Comptometers Part 1 - Within minutes of each other we received two submission to the database for Comptometer operators, intrigued by this ‘new’ word we thought we’d investigate further. Firstly the two submissions. The first from Eileen Butterly nee Mohan. Eileen worked as a comptometer operator in the wages department from 1956 until 1963. Married in 1962 with the …

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• Sheila Morris - Sheila Morris, who as secretary to Mr L F Taylor, Final Finish superintendent, for four years, has left the Company and will be experiencing spending Christmas in Brazil.
• Factory Photos (and a TR4) from 1967 - Canadian Jack Blair recalls his brand new TR4 and a trip to Standard Triumph to collect it. In December of 1967, I had travelled from my UK home in Manchester to London in order to join a group of friends on a ski trip to the Tyrol in Kitzbuhel, Austria.  When I arrived I found …

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• Arthur Sherratt – Works Engineer - Awarded the M.B.E. (Civil Division) in the New Year’s Honours List was Mr. Arthur Harold Sherratt, Works Engineer, Canley, of The Standard Motor Co. Ltd.
• William James Langford - I was an apprentice from 1952 to 1957, when I emigrated to Canada with another ex-apprentice, Melvyn Lloyd. My Dad, William Thomas Langford (also ‘Bill’ of course!), worked at Canley for many years, retiring (I think) in 1966.   Mel and I bought a 1956 TR3 between us in May of 1958, which we drove from …

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