Standard Triumph Works Directory
Documenting Employees of the Standard and Triumph Works
Continue reading “Peter Russell – Costs Department”
Continue reading “Winnie Clarke – Trim”
A final photograph taken at Jock Brown’s retirement. Here we can add names and links to people where more details are available. Continue reading “Jock Brown Retirement”
My grandfather George Poyner worked at the Standard Motor Works from about 1932-42. My mother (his daughter) Josephine Kay is now 91 but has some clear memories of the time, including the air raids etc. George Poyner was a member of the works fire service and lived just opposite the main gates on Canley Road. Continue reading “George Poyner”
When in 1993/4 I read about the redevelopment of the Canley site and the overnight bulldozing of buildings, I was especially moved by the public outcry. Continue reading “‘Gloria’ Sculpture, Canley”
Tom joined as a car body builder around 1920ish. He was foreman by the 1939 census and then probably in body design in the drawing office. Continue reading “Tom Carss”