Old, Long Forgotten Car Dealers

Obikenobi23

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

Interesting you mentioned Callows, I restored a hearse built by them a few years ago but could never find anything about where they operated from, thanks for the information.

The entrance Callow's main work area was in Cumberland Street directly opposite Boyne street. It was right next to to rear entrance to Poole's & beside a shop owned by my godfather's parents.
Poole's then amalgamated with Booth's & moved to Islandbridge.
The commercial vehicle garage for Autocars was in Boyne Street where they also did the Fordson tractors.

ben9195

swarlb wrote: »

How old is that list ? i worked for Fiat Dealerships in the early 70's and very few of them ring a bell.
The one that really sticks out is Fitzgerald Motors in Kilmainham, I lived in Inchicore from the late 50's, where exactly were they, do you know ?

Assemblers were not Fiat dealers. They serviced all makes but mainly BMC. I worked there as a mechanic from 1965 t0 1968. They closed down some years later.

Obikenobi23

Herberton Motors on Herberton Road were FIAT Dealers in the 70s as I bought a 128 there. They had a guy there who was a specialist on the 130 & its auto box & also the Fulvia.

desmo58

I worked here for a couple of years in the late 70's.

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ben9195

Formerly occupied as a branch depot by Assemblers Garage of Lombard St. Did some car sales there and owned the petrol pumps

500man

Anyone have a window sticker from any of these

Capri

ben9195 wrote: »

Assemblers were not Fiat dealers. They serviced all makes but mainly BMC. I worked there as a mechanic from 1965 t0 1968. They closed down some years later.

Assemblers-Ashurst ? AEC trucks ?

ben9195

Assemblers at one stage imported Hudson and some Dodge cars from the States in FKD form and assembled them for sale in Ireland. They retained the Assemblers name after the importing stopped. Many of the imported cars were bought by funeral undertakers.

Seaotter

I was an apprentice motor mechanic in Assemblers from 1967 and served a five year apprenticeship there. I left in in 1973 qualified. In a reply to ben9195, Assemblers were indeed a Fiat dealer after giving up the BMC agency in 1970. We did however continue to service and repair all makes of vehicles. I am living in Australia right now but on a recent visit home I visited the old premises and I see it is a tyre outlet now. The proprieter kindly allowed me to wander around the old "homested" and as I looked I told him some of the lost history ---- much of it way back beyond my time! The garage, still intact, used to be the Church of St. James of Compostella and Marovitz Flats at the rear was an old leper coloney and graveyard hundreds of years ago, part of which is now under the garage. Some building excavation was proposed, sometime about 1969 - 70, after an old wall collapsed and crashed through the wash area roof and there was speculation that digging might unearth human remains.
I think that I scared the s**t out of the present occupier !!!!

Standard Toaster

LookBehindYou wrote: »

McCairns motors in Santry, they assembled Vauxhalls.

Just came across these pictures today and remembered this post, haven't seen these pics posted here yet. 1956 from the link.

Standard Toaster

Last two, 1949 it says

BillyDonegan

PanhardPL wrote: »

Donegan's Garage of Feenagh were Main VW Dealers in the past and could have been there in 1982, so worth checking out.

Donegan's Garage of Feenagh were actually main SEAT dealers until 2004.

delthedriver

BillyDonegan wrote: »

Donegan's Garage of Feenagh were actually main SEAT dealers until 2004.

They were also Alfa Dealers in the early 90,s !

Tonyaus

500man wrote: »

acme coach @ motor co palmerstown
Cars@Plant ltd Finglas
Churchtown service station
W.B Crawford Hatch st
Assemblers ltd Lombard st
Dudlin garages north circular rd
esmonde garage serpentine ave
Fitzgerald motors kilmainham
fort service station cromwellsfort rd
Frankfort garage ltd Dundrum rd
Gorman Bros maxwell rd
Linders chapelisod @smithfield
Modern motors Crumlin
motor sales townsend st
Murphy@gunn Rathgar av
Ryan car sales Townsend st
Sweeney @ forte Clontarf
Tractamotors Prussia st
Williams Sterling @ co Williamstown
Dun Laoighaire Motors Glasthule rd

And Pauls of Bray

Tonyaus

larchill

carchaeologist wrote: »

Nice, wonder is 7777RI still knocking around the place. It was/is purple in colour.

Related, but loosely and too modern really for this forum but Randles bros (Nissan) in Tralee have this unregistered Micra in the showroom since last week. I guess the car is around 12ish years old?
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12 years indeed, my Mother has one of those - its early 02. Looks like the same colour:eek:

larchill

Just realised that this thread has been running since 2011! The McCairines photos are really something, this was close to where my aunt used to live in Beaumont. Many a childhood journey was made that way as it as the main N1 (or T1 as it was). What has become of the place? Probably flats no doubt.


Dealers in Drogheda back in the day were ...

Lawson Motors (mentioned here already) did Morris in the '60s & Toyota in the early 70s before they went out of business.

Kennys Garage did Austin & we got our Austin 1300 there in 1970. Bought a 2nd hand Honda Civic there myself in '92 when they were a Renault dealer. They closed up sometime in the 2000s.

KMK Motors (an offshoot of Kennys) sold Crysler. We got a Hillman Hunter there in 1973.

Tara Motors in the '80s were Fiat dealers. We got a Fiat Ritmo from them in 1981. They ceased in the 80s.

Gilmore Motors up byond the Black Bull were Mercedes & Audi dealers in the 60s. They ceased in the early 70s.

Brendan Kierans did Renault in the 70s, & then Mitsubishi in the 80s in Tara Motors prior premises.

McGees Garage were Fiat dealers in the 60s. My Aunt won a Fiat 850 sometime around the late 60s. The car was provided by McGees.

BowWow

larchill wrote: »

Just realised that this thread has been running since 2011! The McCairines photos are really something, this was close to where my aunt used to live in Beaumont. Many a childhood journey was made that way as it as the main N1 (or T1 as it was). What has become of the place? Probably flats no doubt.

Its now the Omni Shopping Centre.

delthedriver

larchill wrote: »

12 years indeed, my Mother has one of those - its early 02. Looks like the same colour:eek:

Where has the car been for 12 years?

Would it qualify for a 132 Reg?:)

larchill

delthedriver wrote: »

Where has the car been for 12 years?

Would it qualify for a 132 Reg?:)

Ha ha - she'll enjoy that!

esicorty

Just ordered a replica of my badly faded 32 year olf fairlane sticker from a uk printer. They do any replica for £10.50 inc postage, just give them a photo of original.

Standard Toaster

esicorty wrote: »

Just ordered a replica of my badly faded 32 year olf fairlane sticker from a uk printer. They do any replica for £10.50 inc postage, just give them a photo of original.

Link?

esicorty

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Link?

Will do when I get on desktop.

esicorty

Here is link to website. I supplied picture of faded sticker and they produced the new one which is very accurate. I will post a photo of actual item when i receive it by post.
http://martincull.create.net/page_1783421.html

trevorbrady

that's crazy cheap. The artwork for that Fairlane one is pretty simple but an unusual one could take an hour or two to replicate, especially if there's no modern font available to match the text or is it has an obscure logo that isn't currently available as vector art.

I wonder would they still charge £10.50?

esicorty

I believe 10.50 is standard charge, on their website they have samples of other more complicated stickers they have reproduced.

esicorty

Just received reproduction dealership stickers, very good copy, font is perfect match.

exador

just got dejavu ...brings back memories when i worked there

Silvera

esicorty wrote: »

Just received reproduction dealership stickers, very good copy, font is perfect match.

Very nice. I must see if I can source a picture of a 'Coleborns' Garage (Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow) sticker to get re-produced.

Maybe somebody here has a pic?

esicorty

Fitted it today

BonnieSituation

Capri wrote: »

There was a car dealership on Merville Ave (opp Fairview park footbridge) until recently, maybe still one there

HB Dennis ( 'now part of Joe Duffy motors' ) used to have 777 in all their personal cars ( Jags /R Rovers ), the Dennis's lived on the Howth rd near Harry Byrnes.

(just opp Harry Byrnes does anyone remember the house that had a Herald and a Mini outside - going to school in the 60's I remember them, then over the years they rusted and rusted until only the roofs remained - then the place was sold for development )

I'm guessing then you could take a stab at telling me where this was?



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