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)

Submit a Ex-employee
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’.
Thank you.
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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ALF WELCH – Read about a character who was one of the inspirations to this archive.

Thank you for all the submissions in the database. In addition some people have articles, info, memories and photos. We’ll show everything, that comes in, at some point soon, please bear with us. We still need more… Email your stories today!

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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.
• Christmas 1969 – Love in the Air Part 2 - Love certainly was in the air at Christmas 1969 as all these workers at Standard Triumph were married. This is Part Two.
• Christmas 1969 – Love in the Air Part 1 - Love certainly was in the air at Christmas 1969 as all these workers at Standard Triumph were married. There are lot’s – this is just part one!
• Joseph Rice (Jo) - My dad worked at Canley Standard Triumph , Coventry 1964 – 1979.
• Cinderella – Christmas 1949 - An event of seasonal importance to children of all ages will take place in the Pavilion Tile Hill Lane on Saturday evening 17th December, 1949, when Jimmy Gunn of the Service Department will again present the Sunshine Follies in their second annual pantomime.
• Ferguson 10,000th Tractor - The huge Banner Lane plant of The Standard Motor Co. Ltd., which is building the Ferguson Tractor, recently produced the 10,000th complete machine.
• John Stringer – Herald Trim & Finish, Final Finish, Press Cars - I started in Herald Trim and Finish in 1965.
• Graham Sykes - Graham Sykes, seen here as a 19 year old apprentice in 1956. In an interview with the Coventry Telegraph, Mr Sykes said the highlight of his career was swimming in the final of the Melbourne Olympics when he was just 19 years old. This photo, we have unearthed in our archives, is very fitting to remember Graham …

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• Bill Cotterill – Works Police - Well known to visitors to The Standard Motor Co’s works is Staff-Sergt. Bill Cotterill, of the Works Police, who recently retired after twelve years’ service with the Company.
• Jack Cooke – Maintenance Superintendent - Jack Cooke started in 1938 as a pipe fitter under Mr. Lowe who was Works Engineer for the No. 1 Shadow Factory. Later, under the supervision of the late Mr. L. Hall. Works Engineer, and Mr. Whalley, foreman. Jack worked throughout the war keeping pace with the increasing production of aero engines, and carried out …

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• Spitfire Mk IV Factory Photos - A great photo showing the early body production of Mk IV Triumph Spitfires.
• TR7 – The First at Canley (Again) - An additional photograph of the first TR7 to be built at Canley.
• Herald Factory Assembly – Unknown Area - 100% Factory photo, 100% Herald and Herald associated parts – but is this Canley?
• Tony Lee and John Lloyd - A famous photograph taken during the testing of the new TR7.
• Pauline Davies - MRS. PAULINE DAVIES secretary to M. Miles, Trim Engineer, Fletch North.
• Asia Lopuszanska - Mrs Asia Lopuszanska, a clerk for several years in Postal, Canley, became a full-time housewife last month. She has a growing family to look after.
• Fred Nicklin – Experimental - Fred was the chief experimental development test driver following in the footsteps of Roy Smith. Fred left Triumph to work for the Jensen motor company.
• Bob Wilson Retirement - A fantastic photo showing Bob Wilsons retirement in the Fletch North workshop which Harry Webster attended with the Fletch North Gang.
• Pat Ball – Home Sales - I worked in the Home Sales at Canley. I started in 1960. My boss was Mr Rushworth and my under boss was Mr Russell.
• Video – Short Excerpt from 1956 - Short edit from British Pathe from 1956.
• Tony Lee - Tony Lee joined Triumph as an apprentice in January 1946 and worked extensively alongside his bosses Harry Webster and Walter Belgrove on developing new Standard Triumph products in the post – war era.
• Derek Earl - When I first went there I went from GEC, and I arrived there in my Volkswagen Beetle, and the security man wouldn’t let me take it in there! He said ‘you can’t come in there with a foreign car’ so I had to park outside the gates. So a month or two later I changed …

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• Standard Triumph Exterior Photo 1959 - We like to see exterior factory photographs – it helps with identifying certain areas and our understanding of the site itself. Photos are quite rare – colour ones really rare. 
• Alan Jenner - Two copies of Alan Jenner’s Standard Triumph ID card.
• Surgery – or Computer Room? - Part of this project is to recognise many of the factory features that made up the Canley Standard Triumph site. We would like your help.
• Fletch South - Remarkably we may have ‘found’ the doors to the main entrance at Fletch South. They still exist!

 

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