A few good export trading company images I identified:
Pride and Clark of Stockwell Road, London SW9
Image by brizzle born and bred
Family-run organization in South London which traded as a dealer in motorcycles, spares and accessories.
They were primarily based in Stockwell Road, which runs from Stockwell tube station south-east to Brixton in the SW9 area. As the firm grew in the course of the 1960s, they took on numerous additional premises located in the very same road. The firm painted the whole front of these shops with their trademark maroon-coloured paint. This created a surreal effect at street-level, which was exploited in a scene in the Antonioni film Blowup, exactly where David Hemmings was seen driving on the street, with showrooms on both sides of the road which stretched as far as the eye could see. Soon after the firm ceased to trade on such a massive scale locally, several of the shopfronts remained in alternative ownership, sporting their maroon colours for years afterwards.
Their departments consisted of new and secondhand bikes showrooms new and secondhand spares – which also included ex-WD spares a mail order section export and import division, as nicely as finance and insurance coverage offices.
Apart from selling motorcycles, Pride and Clarke sold cars, three-wheelers and sailing dinghies plus clothing for motorcycling and sailing. They had counters full of accessories for both two and 4 wheeled transport.
The firm was well-known for its particular offers with makers, so that they were in a position to offer you machines at really low costs. Just before the Second World War they had been greatest known for the Red Panther, but also AJW and Calthorpe. Post-war, numerous other individuals followed.
In 1939 they added their personal model, a lightweight called the Cub. It was a machine with a 122cc Villiers engine, 3-speed gearbox constructed in-unit, a simple loop frame and blade girder forks. It was only listed for a single year.
Details Sources:
Graces Guide
www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Primary_Page
www.realclassic.co.uk
www.realclassic.co.uk/opinionfiles/opinion07053100.html
Opel in the United Kingdom
www.vboa.org.uk/toplevel.php?p=h8
Panther Classic Motorcycles
motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/panther-class…
‘Old Bristol’s By no means Die’
Image by brizzle born and bred
Photographed in a field at The Corner, close to Motcombe in 1995, this old Bristol Lodekka bus was nonetheless capable to move beneath its personal energy, nevertheless it didn’t move extremely far. Some effort by the owner, to keep it looking reasonable in appearance, had been produced. It is an ex-Bristol Omnibus Firm bus, registered EHT 854C.
Image Supply From geograph.org.uk
Author Clive Warneford
Permission Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.
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