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)

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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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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.
• Royal British Legion Triumph Pipe Band - For Jim Cosgrove of Coundon, the skirl of the pipes was a familiar sound at home. Three members of his family were musicians in the famed Royal British Legion Triumph Pipe Band. My grandfather Jim Cosgrove was founder of the band when he came to Binley in 1936 to work at the colliery. He came …

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• Standard Vanguard, full-sized model - I worked for the Coventry Tile Company, one of the finest tile fixing firms in the country. One Saturday morning, I was sent to do a small tiling job at the Standard Motors factory. I arrived with my small tool bit, the tiles and other materials having been delivered the day before. I was instructed to …

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• Blitz - In the late spring of 1940 Germany was winning the war and had occupied France, poising to invade Britain. And my mother was dying.
• Redundancy – Standard Motors 1956 - An excerpt from the House of Commons relating to redundant workers at Standard and their efforts for new employment.
• Harold Shaw - Straight out of the army into factory good times ..
• Josephine and David Naughton - I met my husband when I was motor company nurse My husband and I both worked at the Standard Triumph. My husband was a paint sprayer and I was a works sister. I started at Canley then moved to Fletchamstead and then moved to Tile Hill surgery. It was there I met David. He came …

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• A E Powell - I was a foreman at Standard for nearly 20 years.
• Bill Lovell – Electrician - I was apprenticed for five years to Lee Beesley of Warwick Row in 1947. At that time it had contracts with most of the important car factories in Coventry to supply large quantities of labour to carry out electrical alterations and installations. After 18 months or so at Armstrong Siddeley, Parkside, I was sent to Standard …

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• My Memories at the Standard – W Hind - I worked for the Standard Motor Company in the engineering design drawing office at Fletch North as a gear specialist on transmission for gearboxes.
• Standard Triumph Pipe Band Part 2 - Following on from the previous Standard Triumph Pipe Band article here are a selection of additional photographs.
• Standard Triumph Pipe Band Part 1 - The band has its origins amongst migrant coal miners from Ayrshire, who came to work in the mines around Coventry in the early 1930’s. By 1936, they had formed the Binley Colliery Pipe Band under Pipe Major Jock Gray, wearing white tunics and the MacCrae tartan.
• Sir John Black (Biography, 1951) - Sir John Black Chairman and Managing Director of the Standard Motor Company Ltd (Mini biography published in 1951)
• Standard Triumph Houses – Tile Hill Lane - Standard Triumph owned a number of houses. We are currently compiling the details but couldn’t resist uploading this rare colour photograph from 1959.
• John Thomas Egginton – Standard Triumph Groundsman - A marvellous group photo showing a Cricket Match on the sports pitch at Canley – stopped for a photo opportunity with a very special guest.
• Ivy Cottage - We’d love to hear any details you remember about Ivy Cottage.
• Sheila Egginton - I started work at the Standard Motors in 1944 at the age of 14. I was a junior clerk in the works Inspection office. Our office was in what was the Mosquito shop during the war, after the war I became typist to Mr Allen a foreman inspector over the assembly track . Our office …

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• The Standard Triumph Club - The Standard Triumph Club, Sports Pavillion is the only works building from the original factory that still remains. The site is now a social club.
• Alick Dick - Alick Sydney Dick, seen here in January 1961, as the Managing Director of the Standard Motor Co. Archive: 28 November 1960 The “wonder boy” of Britain’s car industry , Mr Alick Dick, has reached the top job in the Standard – Triumph International Company. For Mr Dick, now Managing Director, is to become Managing Director …

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• Coventry Car Day 9th September, 2017 - Share your stories with us from Standard Triumph – at the Coventry Car and Motorcycle Day Saturday 9th September, 2017 As part of the UK-Wide Heritage Open Weekend, Vehicles from Coventry’s finest factories built by Coventry’s finest generation will be assembling at Coombe Abbey Country Park and leaving (at 9.15am) to drive into Coventry City Centre for a day-long …

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• Coventry Car Day – Saturday 9th September, 2017 - Early Notice: A Date for Your Diary Heritage Open Weekend, where cultural venues right across the country will be open to the public including places and buildings that usually are closed to the public including venues in Coventry. This Standard Triumph Works Archive is looking to be part of this special event in the centre …

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• F J Shaw – Materials Handling - Some of the problems involved in car assembly, particularly when transferring parts from the contractors to the assembly plant, which could be anything from 20 to 120 miles away, were the subject of comment by Mr. F. J. D. Shaw, materials handling engineer, the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., who dealt with “Handling in Motor Manufacture.”
• Donald Stokes Heads Standard Triumph - Mr Donald Stokes, 49, managing director and deputy chairman of Leyland Motor Corporation, has been appointed chairman of Standard-Triumph International in succession to Sir Henry Spurrier, it is announced today. Sir Henry recently retired from an active part in the corporation’s affairs and became its first president. Mr Stanley Markland, managing director of Standard-Triumph International, …

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• Stanley Markland - Sixty year old Mr Stanley Markland , who replaced Mr Alick Dick as managing director after the Leyland Group took over the Standard Triumph motor company two years ago, is to retire.
• Initial Inspections - A fantastic photo from early 1960.
• Streamline Taxi - A fabulous period photo from 1939.

 

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