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I worked there from 75 til it closed in 80. First 3 years as a trainee so had about 6 months in various depts over the first 3 years...gearbox assembly, rocket range, spares, what was still known at that time as the Herald trim too etc. Ended up there when I finished my training in 78. Many happy memories of some wonderful people and Christmas time in there was just the best! Festooned in decorations and music playing away...a much happier workforce than any I worked in since.

c1968 Canley (Triumph) Fire Officer co.uk/fire-station-canley"/>More c1973 Leading Fireman More

Security security-officer/">More Service: 1969 - 1987

Training Officer Ref. 1973 uk/arthur-lynch/">More

Welding Shop king/">More

Engine Assembly Line. 45 Years Service. Retired 1955

Tinsmith tinsmith-welders-17-shop/">More

Gearbox Assembly, Fletch South c1969

Supervisor, IBM computer room c1973

Works Secretary

Western Avenue & Berkeley Square uk/dick-carter-berkeley-square/">More

Finance Director c1975/76 uk/tr6-production/>More

Assistant Fire Officer (Cash’s Lane) c1930's

Nightshift Superintendent c1973 jack-tarrant-main-trim-stores/"/>More

Standard Service Engineer c1951 uk/danskin-w-l/">More

Examiner. Cash’s Lane. 1907 - c1936 Married to Rosie Clara Richardson (employee of Standard Motor Co.) More

Travelling Service Engineer Prior to 1951 triumphworks.co.uk/danskin-w-l/">More

c1958

c1929

Secretary, Fletch North 1973 uk/debbie-darragh/">More Debbie Darragh (nee Jackson) Drawing Office. More

Allesley

Worked at Canley during his years there working on Stag, TR productiions. Left on closure. During his time there he saw many changes, etc and remember Red Robbie calling them out on strike. He use to be coached over to Honeybourne to work on cars held there.

Security Officer

Park Royal Standard Triumph Service Depot, North London. c1951 - (at least) 30 years service More

Commercial Apprentice 1970-1976 then worked in Plant Director Fred Young''s Office for 12 months before becoming Staff Relations Officer based in Ivy Cottage. Left in 1978 moving to Bickenhill offices, before working back at Canley in Human Resources HQ 1980-1987

Employment Officer, Canley c1973

Industrial Engineering Manager

c1929

Celia married and became Maule from memory. Worked in Purchase Timing in Fletch North late 1970s.

Engineering Development Department 1970's co.uk/recognising-faces/">More

Deputy Chief Inspector, Body Paint and Trim 1960 http://www.triumphworks.co.uk/marlene-eales"/>More

Electrical Team Ref: 1986 uk/electrical-team/">More

I worked there until it closed in 1980. Finished fitting head lamp on the T R 7

Member of the Standard Rugby Team 1948 www.triumphworks.co.uk/rugby-team-1948/"/>Photo

Panel Shop, Standard Motor Co. c1930’s www.triumphworks.co.uk/standard-staff/">More

Company Driving Instructor c1950's co.uk/apprentices-1953-motorshow"/>More

Tracer

Production buyer in Fletch North until about 1980.

Allesley. Body Shop Foreman uk/lew-davies-body-foreman-allesley/"> More More

Body Prep. 15 Shop, Canley c1963

Styling Department Fletch North c1972 Started 1968.

Secretary to M Miles, Trim Engineer, Fletch North. 1966

Rocket Range

Sheet metal working apprentice. Awarded Most Improved Apprentice of the Year 1951 More

My dad worked there when it was the standard motor company till he retired

My father Wilfred Davies worked at the Standard Triumph works in the 1950's. He worked in the Plating Shop. He was proud of his work but I found out later it was a very dirty job.

Raw Materials Stores Foreman 28 years service Retired 1971

My Uncle

Deputy Chief Inspector. Radford c1973 co.uk/harry-smith"/>More

Secretary Recreation Club Committee c1949 co.uk/recreation-club-committee"/>More

Recreational Secretary, c1961

Comptometer Dept. Ref 1931 & 1939 D.O.B: 15/8/ 1912. Ref: 1931 Physical Culture Club More

Secretary to Bill Carrol raw materials and consumables. Then Len Freeman (taking over from Maggie Callaghan when she left) and Bill Randle. Ted Collier was over them. Others in office were Gordon Chinn, Pete Russell, John Randle, Charlie Killick, George Milne.My father in law Max Tizick worked in COD with George Key. My father Bert Davis worked on the track

I started at Capmartin road on the gear box section under Jimmy Hope the chargehand. The foreman was a man named Willdig, this was in 1965. In 1967 I was transferred to the Tinsmith dept at Canley as a Tinsmith Welder and there I remained until plant closure, these were the best years of our lives, when mates were mates and helped each other, so many tales to tell and so many memories.

On 18 August 1970, Standard – Triumph was renamed simply as Triumph and Bill Davis, George Turnbull’s deputy at Austin-Morris. became Chairman and Chief Executive of Triumph. 1970 - (at least) 1973

I started at Standard Triumph as a 15 year old boy as a trainee trimmer in 21 shop in August 1964, then moving to Herald trim, 15 shop, rocket range final finish. I enjoyed that start to my working life before moving to work in a bank in 1975. I still meet a couple of Triumph workers on my travels from time to time, but I would think a great many from that era have long since left this world. I recently did a GT6 headling and trim work for a man who had rebuilt one for pleasure in Balsall Common with which he was very pleased.

Trainee Trimmer 1964-1975 Worked in all shops as part of my training finishing 21 shop and doing all trim work on the Triumph 2000, 2500 PI, estate etc.

Historian for early Standard cars. Standard Register, Author and all round good egg who seemed to be one of the only employees who could see the benefit of recording and documenting the early history of the start of Standard and Triumph. Full article to follow

Field Service Engineer c1961/62 co.uk/field-service-engineers/">More

Coach Painter, Canley Retired 1961 19 years service d Oct 27, 1971 aged 81

Park Royal Standard Triumph Service Depot, North London. c1951 - (at least) 23 years service More

Worked in Coventry maintenance department, up until 1961. Details to follow...

Rate-fixing

Research and Development c1959 Dawtry was present c1938 in Standards Technical Office

Foreman. Arthur's identical twin brother worked at the Radford plant

Radford Plant. Ernest's identical twin brother was a Foreman at Canley

Typist. 1950s

c1929

Public Relations and Advertising c1959 Organised launch of Triumph Herald at the Royal Albert Hall. Organised press launch, trial in Ireland.

Ref: 1931 Physical Culture Club co.uk/physical-culture-club-more-info/">More

Fitter - Number 1 line - New Assembly hall, Canley 1979-Plant Closure 1980

Toolsetter 1962

My Dad worked there is the 60/70's in Inspection - Colin Debney - he sadly passed away in 1985 aged 53.

(Standard Motors Amateur Boxing Club) Champion (Weight unknown) 6th March 1953

Worked with Jack King uk/jack-king/">More

Technical Instructor. Apprentice Workshop. Alan himself was an ex-apprentice

Experimental Department

Trained as a plumber and became an agitator at the Standard Triumph car plant

Standards Room at Fletch South co.uk/john-edwards/">More

Started c1956. I worked there in specification dept banner lane, sales dept canley and the overseas manufacturing tile hill till Leyland took over and made redundant like two thirds of the office staff. I saw the Herald launch at the Leofric Hotel

Maintenance Retired Feb/March 1979

My nan drove the first TR3 of the line. We have the official press release photos. I will dig them out.

36 years service. Gearbox Shop, Chargehand Started March, 1924 Retired June, 15, 1960

Body drop Barb line

Standard Company Secretary. Died prematurely of TB just before WW2

1969 to 1973 - worked as a secretary for Hugh Climie ( Company Secretary & Solicitor) and then Alan Edis - Product Planning Divisional Manager before leaving to work at Longbridge, with Alan

Managing Director from 1954 to 1961 Joined Standard Motor Co., Ltd., as an apprentice in 1934. More

Brother of Alick Dick. Aged 47 (in 1961) STI Export Department. Part of 26 export staff fired as part of the Leyland takeover, 1961. The sacked staff said they had been told that because of ‘financial difficulties’ the company could not consider paying general compensation for the loss of their jobs. James Dick, Manager of the subsidiary in Headfort Place, Westminster, was given two weeks notice. So had seven office staff and 18 fitters and mechanics. One of Mr Dick’s staff said: ‘We feel the firm should at least pay compensation. Some of the sacked men have been with the company thirty years.’ The subsidiary which handled export sales to customers who collected their cars in Britain. The work, involving £500,000 worth of cars each year, would be done by another Standard-Triumph depot .

Son of ex MD, Alick Dick

My mum and dad worked at the triumph through the 60s (Dad died aged 43). Mum worked until she retired at 60 ( ran the buffet on nights). Their names were Elsie and Ken Difford.

Works Accountant. 11 years service. Forward Radiator, Bordesley Green. href="http://www.triumphworks.co.uk/forward-radiator-bordesley-green/">More

Ref: 1931 Physical Culture Club co.uk/physical-culture-club-more-info/">More

Inspector. Had been with the company since 1940 d Oct 21, 1971 aged 62

Security Officer

Stationery Office Manager. Fletchamstead South. (Married to Bill Dingley Security)

Paintshop. 1960-1980

Apprentice 1973. From Burbage in Leicestershire. Left Triumph to join the family Building Company. We went Skiing a few times with his dad and mates.

Machinist 66 men were killed serving in the Great War and their names are inscribed on the memorial stone by the promenade at London Road Cemetery. Inscription: Erected in loving memory of our comrades who gave their lives for liberty in the Great War 1914-1918 by the staff and employees of the Triumph and Gloria companies. 'He was a man and nothing that effected the human race was foreign to him.' More

Managing Director, Standard-Triumph (Liverpool), Ltd (Speke)

I joined Jaguar Rover Triumph in 1978 straight from school as a Craft Apprentice, and after my first year training at Radford Road I moved to the Standard Triumph in 1979. As part of my apprenticeship I worked on the Rocket Range, Gear Box line in Fletch South, Engine Test in Fletch North, Brakes Development, Chassis Development and the Detailed fitting area also within Fletch North, following closure of the production in a Canley I became a fitter within the test area that remained in Fletch South then moved into prototype build, again situated in Fletch South.

Paint Shop, Torrington Avenue

I joined from school at the age of 15 in 1959. I was a trainee trimmer. Initially working on the Standard Vanguard and TR range making and fitting the trim. I then moved on to the "Rocket Range" (Herald production line) making and fitting seats and trim. Not sure if you are aware why they called it the Rocket Range? It was because the cars came of the line so fast it was like a rocket! I carried on working there till I was 18, then moved on to Humber/Routes at Humber Road, then Massey Ferguson at Banner Lane. Finally ended up building an IT company and selling it some 7 years ago and am now retired. I do remember being told in the early days I would finish my work by lunch time, and then went to see my Foreman, and being told to go and see my shop steward, who told me off. We were forever being told to walk out over something, never did find out why. Also remember the time when they kept on losing the chrome TR wire wheels, and eventually found out that the site workmen where taking them out in wheel barrows full of rubbish through the main gate!!

1937 Appointed secretary and chief accountant or the Standard Motor Co., Coventry. Joining the company as assistant secretary in July, 1936. Resigned his position as secretary of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., in order to take up an appointment with Messrs. W. and T. Avery Ltd., in Birmingham 01 October 1943

Member of the Standard Rugby Team 1948 www.triumphworks.co.uk/rugby-team-1948/"/>Photo Harry Dodd. He was a good friend of grandads. (Jock Brown) Later he and his wife Joan ran the newsagent on Bulkington Road Bedworth for years

Worked as a Setter at Canley from early 1950's until 1981

Engine Spares c1966

Fitter in engine strip section, C.K.D. 21 years Service Emigrated to New Zealand, 1968 More

Engine dispatch

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Allesley

DOS (Drawing Office Services) uk/tom-kirkham-38-years-service/">Click Here For More

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My dad worked there

Nick Downes, dad. nick-downes-herald-trim"/>More

Track and stores worker

Started in 1968 when I left School as a junior worker I worked in the gear box shop... 21 shop.... dud line... roller test ... when I finished my training worked in the Herald trim shop. I worked with Joe Heads. My father also worked there Don Downes. I left in 1974. More

Worked for Standard Triumph in the 1930's and throughout the war - Banner Lane - and then with Massey Ferguson until his retirement in the early 1970's.

Foreman Axle Assembly Radford

No. 6 Shop Retired Feb/March 1979

Manager Environmental Services Fletch North

Maintenance Superintendent Fletchamstead & Allesley c1973

Maintenance Superintendent Maintenance Dept Fletch South c 1971-80

Experimental Dept. Engineer 1967-1978 Roger joined the Triumph competition department, which was under Leyland’s control then, in 1967 when the official works team had been disbanded, but the competition shop was still involved with preparing cars for privateers like Bill Bradley who was racing his Spitfire which we looked after, and we also prepared Triumph 2000s for Roy Fidler. Our competition shop was at the back of Fletch North then where we had our own small department. Ray Henderson ran the department with Peter Cox as charge hand and the other lads in the department included Pete Clarke, Brian Spencer and Roger. In 1974 moved out of the Competition shop and Pete Cox went to press cars, and Pete Clarke and Roger moved into the main experimental shop on general experimental work for production. But the car industry under Leyland control then was in turmoil and when the three day week started.

Maintenance Superintendant

Fitters Mate Service 1968-1972

1967- 1980. Trainee at Torrington Ave training school , trained at Canley, Radford and all other factories. Quality Control inspector in machine shops at Canley. Ended with being made redundant from Engine assembly in 1980. Thanks John - we have no contact details for you so please send us any memories via iwas@standardtriumphworks.co.uk - thank you

Training school 1967 till 1970 Canley Engine shop 1970. Till 1981

Worked there from 1967 to 1981

Press Shop Foreman

c1929

Press Shop

Deputy Chief Inspector Fletch South c1969

Gear Standards c1968 weddings-part-1-1968/"/>More

Paint Chemist, Tile Hill Laboratory

Spray Shop and Union Convenor

Foreman Electricians Dept, Canley 1973 EDIT: I've been enjoying looking at your Standard Triumph website and I see you have entered the name of Joe Driver, Maintenance Electrician Foreman, 1973. I think you will find his surname is Drybrough. I knew him and his wife very well. Keep up the good work. Chris McGrath.

Cook, Standard Triumph

Purchasing Timing Analyst with JRT at Fletch North, now a senior Coventry Councillor

Wages Dept, Fletch South Ref 1963 triumphworks.co.uk/wages-dept/">More Married Coventry Bees star Les Owen (submitted by Midland Red)

Shipping Department, Fletch South c1969

Costs Clerk, Forward Radiator, Bordesley Green. triumphworks.co.uk/forward-radiator-bordesley-green/">More

Foreman - Canley

Tinsmith

b: March 31, 1909 Started career with Cross and Ellis of Coventry; later joined Standard Motor Co., Ltd. Governing Director, Coventry Hood and Sidescreen Co., Ltd Coventry; joined the Coventry Hood and Sidescreen Co., Ltd. (of which his late father was Founder Director) in 1935; Works Manager, 1939; Director, 1941; became Managing Director in 1953. later succeeding his father as Governing Director.

My grandfather was Howard Milton Dunn who was a toolmaker and who was a shop steward in the Transport and General Workers Union who retired in 1953 having started at Canley in the 1920s and who died in 1979.

Paint Sprayer, worked at the Standard early Sixties

Buying office at Canley uk/colin-wyatt-experimental">Reference

Clerk in Spares Export, Fletch. South c1968 www.triumphworks.co.uk/june-dunn/">More

I started work at the Apprentice Training School, Torrington Avenue, Tile Hill, Coventry as a Technical Apprentice / Draughtsman on 26 August 1968. More

Fleet Sales Executive 1971 UPDATE: My uncle was Philip Howard Dunn, who was Fleet Sales Manager based in The Kremlin who sadly died in September 1981. His wife was Terry Dunn who worked as a secretary for senior management in the 1950s. My uncle was a great friend of Bernard Roberts and was best man at Harry Webster's wedding. My uncle worked overseas for the company just after the war setting up CKD plants in India, Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) Brazil and all over the Caribbean.

Secretary for senior management in the 1950s. Wife of Philip Howard Dunn, who was Fleet Sales Manager based in The Kremlin

Apprentice c1969-74

Field Service Engineer c1961/62 co.uk/field-service-engineers/">More

Powers Card Room c1959

c1950

My Dad Stan Dunning, my Mum Mair Dunning, My Nan May Jones, my Sisters Linda Dunning,& Susan Dunning and Auntie & Uncle all worked there Wally Edgar & Jean Edgar 🙂

My Dad Stan Dunning, my Mum Mair Dunning, My Nan May Jones, my Sisters Linda Dunning,& Susan Dunning and Auntie & Uncle all worked there Wally Edgar & Jean Edgar 🙂

My Dad Stan Dunning, my Mum Mair Dunning, My Nan May Jones, my Sisters Linda Dunning,& Susan Dunning and Auntie & Uncle all worked there Wally Edgar & Jean Edgar 🙂

My Dad Stan Dunning, my Mum Mair Dunning, My Nan May Jones, my Sisters Linda Dunning,& Susan Dunning and Auntie & Uncle all worked there Wally Edgar & Jean Edgar 🙂

My Dad worked from 1960 to 1997 at Final Finish, Canley then Press Cars at Gaydon. He was also a Shop Steward. He thoroughly enjoyed his job and the people he worked with. He passed away in May 2016 after a long battle with Parkinsons. More

Spares Manager c1959 Ref c1955 Ref: 1967: www.triumphworks.co.uk/f-d-wenman/">More Ref 1972: More Ref 1972 More More

Divisional Nursing Officer. Surgery, Canley co.uk/sister-edna-durham"/>More 24 years Service

Foreman, Barb Line in the Rocket Range c1960's

Maintenance at Tile Hill

New car sales

Postal Dept c1973 Founding member of the Triumph Art Society 1963

Rocket Range. I painted my initials with black mastic under the wheel arch of that last Spitfire as it came off the line.

Started work aged 16 in 3, 4, 5 and 10 shops from 1975 - 1979 then spent time in New Assembly Hall till closure .

Electrical Team Ref: 1986 uk/electrical-team/">More