Thanks to Alison Young for this great photo of her Grandfather Ivor Evans.
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Clocking Out
A fantastic image, which looks like home or lunchtime for a large number of assembly workers.
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NEWSOME S.H. Standard Triumph Dealership
SAM NEWSOME’S venture into the garage business was a success story from the start. He first trained as a pilot during the First World War but that came to nothing, so he built his own single-seater racing car and turned his attentions to the race track.
Standard Eight, Early Production
Excerpt from Standard Eight early production.
Recreation Club – Jim Spain
When the last Triumph car left the assembly line at Coventry’s Canley plant the last workers were redeployed to other factories in the group.
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 from Coalburn in Lanarkshire and had three sons. Two of them, Jim my father and Wally my uncle were also pipers in the band. They all eventually worked at the Standard Motor Company.