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.
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