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’.
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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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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.
• Paul Bagley - I started at Standard Triumph in the early 70s.
• STANDARD SERVICE DIVISION, 1947 Part 3 -
• Norman Turner - I worked for Triumph for more than 20 years, starting in 1968 at Tile Hill where I was working on the Herald and Vitesse.
• The Cox Brothers - A great period photo sent in by Malcolm Whittaker featuring the Cox Brothers.
• The Assembly Line – 1947/8 - A remarkable photograph of the Standard Triumph assembly line.
• Ivy Cottage – Part 1 - What are your memories of Ivy Cottage? We’d love to hear from you.
• Competition Department - A great photo from the Competition Department.
• H E Pugh - HE Pugh Manager of the Spares Section of the Service Division.
• Bob Seager - I was a Student Apprentice 1952-55. This was a sort of up market apprenticeship where one worked for a brief time in virtually every department, works and office.
• Drawing Office - The Drawing Office was located within the building Fletch North.
• Albert Bates - A fascinating series of photographs and details have just arrived through our front door from Marilyn Bates relating to her late husband Albert.
• Keith Hopkins - PR chief is appointed to top post at Leyland 30 August 1974, By Clifford Webb Mr Keith Hopkins, the 44- year-old head of British Leyland’s public relations department, is to become managing director of the group’s Austin-Morris division. This announcement was greeted with considerable surprise in the industry last night. It is unusual for PR personnel, …

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• Recognising Faces – Engineering Development Department - We love to see your photos and this one was sent through with a couple of names. We’ve now managed to name some more…
• British Leyland and BMC Merger - 14 May 1968 Britain’s biggest motor manufacturer, the British Leyland Motor Corporation, employing nearly 200,000 men with annual sales worth more than £800 million, comes into existence officially today. Leyland’s merger with BMC in January was described tactfully at first as a joining of forces, but the new operatng structure announced today is clearly dominated …

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• Directors Resign 1961 - Workers at the Standard-Triumph factories at Coventry, where wage rates are among the highest in the country, were concerned yesterday lest the board changes in the company foreshadowed policy changes which could lead to redundancy or to attempts to cut wage rates. The Guardian, 23 August, 1961
• The Wooden Wonder – The Mosquito - After its first flight on the 25th November, 1940, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was immediately adopted as a high-flying, ultra-long range, photographic reconnaissance machine, and with rather more reluctance as an unarmed bomber, by Royal Air Force Bomber Command.
• Furnace Men - Furnace men at Triumph Canley plant in Coventry try to persuade other workers to join their strike over the sacking of a colleague.
• Martin Tustin - Martin, John TUSTIN Director and General Manager, The Standard Motor Co., Ltd. Born December 4, 1914, Stockwell, London. Joined Ford Motor Co., Ltd., as student, 1933 (three years training in factory); joined purchase division, 1936; appointed Assistant Buyer, 1939; served in R.A.F., 1940-45, attaining rank of Flight Lieutenant; served in U.K., N. Ireland, India and …

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• Heralds in the New Assembly Hall - With the introduction of the New Assembly Hall – The Rocket Range. The building of cars could finally be transformed to meet demand.
• Milk - Such a common commodity – and what has it got to do with Standard Triumph?
• Ernest Alwyne Bates (Ernie) - Ernie (Ernest Alwyne) Bates was cutter grinding in the early days and then 6 Cylinder Superintendent till the end in 1981 (he was there till approx a year after Factory closed, disposing of the machinery etc in his department, as other’s  had to do. Alwyne Bates (son) Here is a great photo, in happier times, …

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• Standard Triumph, Standard or Triumph or Both? - Interesting letter by JR Davy, 1978
• The Big ‘O’ - Standard Triumph welcomed a huge number of visitors to the works with many famous faces amongst the visitors warranting an official photograph or two.
• TR2 MVC575 Jabbeke speed test - A unique piece of Triumph history has gone on display at the RAC Club in Pall Mall, London, this week. There aren’t many bits of early Triumph TR history left. Of the genesis of the Standard Triumph range of sports cars, from TRs to Spitfires, Stags and GT6s, we have little to point at and say, “That’s the start of it all”
• Canley Halt – the Railway - Canley Halt was opened for passengers on 30th September 1940, primarily to serve the nearby Standard Motor Company’s Works. The crossing had previously been known as Canley Gates from its inception when the London & Birmingham Railway first provided a gate keeper’s house in 1838 to man the gates.

 

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