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’.
Thank you.
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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ALF WELCH – Read about a character who was one of the inspirations to this archive.

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.
• Michael Hales – Automotive Electrician - I joined Standard in 1966, at the Canley plant.
• Raymond Mays and Standard Triumph - Raymond Mays, famous British motor racing driver of the pre-war era, was a recent visitor to the Coventry factory.
• Speke - If you were based at Speke, Standard Triumph/Triumph’s factory in Liverpool, we’d love to hear from you.
• Apprentice - If you were an Apprentice at Standard Triumph, we’d love to hear from you.
• Hooks – Gordon, Martin and Nigel - I have just found your web site which brought back many happy memories of my time at the Standard, Standard Triumph and BL.
• Wot No Posts? - Nope. We need your help over Christmas.
• Standard Triumph News - It’s Boxing Day – the presents are unwrapped and you’d like to avoid the sales? Can you help with any old copies of Standard Triumph News or Triumph News?
• Merry Christmas - Once again, thank you to all of you that have contributed to the Standard Triumph Works Archive.
• The Works - A great photograph showing the works Spitfires.
• Stag Development - A close up of a popular photograph and the development of the Triumph Stag.
• More Faces - Following the recent faces recognised on the photo from the last TR6, here are more. Perhaps you can help recognise someone here?
• The Russians are Coming - A delegation of leading automobile engineers from the U.S.S.R. recently visited The Standard Motor Co. Ltd. on a two-week study tour of production methods.
• Danskin, William L - Standard Distributors and Dealers in addition to many Standard owners throughout this country and abroad will, we are sure, join us in expressing sorrow on learning of the death of Mr William L. Danskin at the early age of fify-nine.
• Ron Benfield and Bill Timms - I recently received my addition of the Triumph Herald book thank you.  I am also interested in a photograph appearing on the “Submit Your Memories” slip that accompanied the book.
• Factory Photo – Unknown Date - This grainy photograph sees Ivy Cottage at the very centre of the photo and the original dispatch area for finished vehicles to the left.
• Body Shells - This photo shows finished body shells for the Stag and TR6.
• Telephone Operators - Three telephone operators from 1963 who competed for the Miss Herald title.
• Luxury Homes at Half Price - Courage and determination have often produced outstanding results.
• C Walker – Western Avenue - WESTERN AVENUE STALWART RETIRES.
• Triumph Camping and Caravan Club - The annual dinner/dance of the Triumph Camping and Caravan Club was held at the Berkeley Hotel, Coventry, last month.
• Viscount Brookeborough Visit - The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, the Rt. Hon. The Viscount Brookeborough, C.B.E., M.C., LL.D., M.P., visited The Standard Motor Co. Ltd., on the 18th October, 1955.
• Paul Davison – 21 Shop - I worked at Standard Triumph from School as a Trainee Trimmer going to College one day a week to get my City in Guilds in vehicle body work. Which I still have plus a certificate from the company signed by the then management of my achievement.
• 150,000th Ferguson Tractor - On the 24th September, 1950, the 150,000th Ferguson Tractor to be made by The Standard Motor Co. Ltd. for Harry Ferguson Ltd., came off the assembly line at their Banner Lane Factory, Coventry.
• Fire Brigade – Early Days - Two photographs of the Standard Fire Brigade.
• Boom! - I remember vividly the day the sewers “blew up” when thinners from the paint shop had leaked into the drain system and somehow had been ignited.

 

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