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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.
Coventry Car Day
Coventry Car Day

This Standard Triumph Works Archive is looking to be part of this special event in the centre of Coventry on Saturday, 9th September. A display of Standard and Triumph cars complete with books ex-workers can meet up, sign and fill in any details we can then add to this website.

The cars will meet at Coombe Abbey and leave at 9:15am to drive into the centre of Coventry. Cars will be on display in both Broadgate and Millenium Square.

Coventry Car Day
Coventry Car Day

More details to follow.

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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, retires at the end of this month, and Sir William Black, chairman of Leyland, said: “As Mr. Stokes is assuming full executive control of Standard-Triumph, it is not proposed to appoint a managing director. The present director and general manager, Mr George Turnbull, however, will assume broader responsibilities under Mr Stokes.”

Mr Turnbull is 37 and the young management team of Standard-Triumph also includes Mr Harry Webster, 46, engineering director, and Mr J. Carpenter, 38, general sales manager.

19 December 1963