Cars ‘made’ in Ireland

papapat14

I trained in Fords at Marino, 1955/58 and would be interested in any info on assembly of all makes and models in Ireland.

corks finest

S Line wrote: »

They used to assemble beetles in Dublin, was this in the MDL building on the long mile road that now houses Mercedes Ireland?

I think I heard there was a thing around Dublin at the time where people would take the crate that the CKD (complete knock down) body shell came in and used them as garden sheds???

Recently there was a restored Fiat in Classics Monthly magazine that was made in Dublin, where was this done?

Hino trucks were also made in Dublin? Ford had a Factory in cork in know that. Any other car brands assembled in Ireland??

I know about Delorean in N.I. (not trying to be political but technically that’s the UK after all that’s who’s government all the money was embezzled from!!!) and please don’t mention that fibre glass bathtub – the Shamrock

Lego still being made

mattroche

!n the 1960s, O Sheas assembled the OPEL in Cork, the Record & Kadett, for the Southern part of Ireland. Reg Armstrong Motors, also assembled them in Dublin for the remainder of the country. I seem to remember O Sheas also assembled the early SKODA. I think they also had the Zetor Tractors, and a small Truck, but I cant remember its name. I vaguely remember being in O Sheas Plant, and they had New Pre War Opels stored there, in an upstaits loft. I think they were called the Admiral? I often wondered what happened to them.!

murph226

I am currently restoring a 1963 Land Rover Series 2A CKD, I would love to find out some more info about where it was put together.

w124man

murph226 wrote: »

I am currently restoring a 1963 Land Rover Series 2A CKD, I would love to find out some more info about where it was put together.

Solihull in the UK most likely

elperello

murph226 wrote: »

I am currently restoring a 1963 Land Rover Series 2A CKD, I would love to find out some more info about where it was put together.

Could be Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Series

hi5

Alesbury wrote: »

(p.s. my great-grandfather Daniel Alesbury built a car in Edenderry Co. Offaly in his factory in 1904. and showed it at the 1907 RDS Motor Show in Dublin)

I came across this article recently.....


http://edenderryhistory.blogspot.ie/2013/07/when-edenderry-was-irelands-detroit.html

Thinkingaboutit

Austin Cambridge as assembled as distributed by Lincoln & Nolan, ad on back of Capuchin Annual for 1956-57. Assemblers earlier of the Ford V8.

gfwd

Those of you on Facebook may find this interesting...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/186452771925056/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

rugbyman

gfwd
that photo was taken 700 yards from me. i remember both families, though i do not recall the second Hanratty shop. there was another Hanratty pub across the road.

class1comp

1970 article about Renault Wexford plant

1971 article

My interest in this plant is my wife had a faint memory of her aunt's husband being important in Renault. It turned out he was the Pat O'Beirne mentioned in the articles.

Regards
Gerard

Edit I believe this was the location of the plant
52°20'01.7"N 6°27'09.3"W
52.333798, -6.452591

dv.01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/81725810#Comment_81725810

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

dv.01

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

dv.01

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

dv.01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/81725810#Comment_81725810

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

dv.01

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

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dv.01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/73900703#Comment_73900703

Hello,
I'm trying to find out any information for my bachelor's thesis on the assembly of Skoda cars in Ireland. Do you have any information on when Skoda cars were assembled in Ireland? Alternatively any details on assembly, anything, I would be very grateful! There's hardly anything on this in the Czech Republic.

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Duke of Schomberg

"Motor Assembly in Ireland" (Bob Montgomery, Dreolin, 2018) provides a comprehensive coverage of this subject - God knows what it cost me, but not a lot . . . it's A5, paperback, and 240 pages.

Blue850

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114097#Comment_122114097

Skodas were assembled here in the 1950s with the original Octavia, the replacement model , the MB wasn't sold in Ireland and the brand was reintroduced in the 1970s with the 100. Try the National Library of Ireland. They hold back issues of Motoring Life and Auto Ireland,Irish car magazines that should feature Skodas from the time

dv.01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114672#Comment_122114672

Do you have any period photos of the factory, something from the period press about assembly in this company? Alternatively, if you had information, were poor quality behind the discontinuation of Skoda cars in the mid-60s? Opel cars were also assembled here, Ford too I think.

Is the original assembly hall where Skoda cars were assembled at this address: Shanowen Rd , Whitehall, Dublin?

Thank you.

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114150#Comment_122114150

It's available on Amazon. Used. Publishers are out of stock, so if you want a copy Amazon it is.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motor-Assembly-Ireland-Irish-Transport/dp/1902773357

Blue850

Buckleys assembled Skodas at Shanowen Rd. Buckleys were better known as assemblers and distributors for the UK Rootes Group, assembling Hillmans etc.

Duke of Schomberg

"Recently there was a restored Fiat in Classics Monthly magazine that was made in Dublin, where was this done?
Any other car brands assembled in Ireland??"

Fiat were assembled by W J Henderson, firstly at 15-16 Upper Mayor Street, Dublin, c1948, then at Chapelizod between 1950ish-56, then by Fiat (Ireland) Ltd, Kylemore Road, Dublin from 1968-84.

So as well as Fiat, at various times (and some not for long and/or in small numbers) there were: Adler, Alfa-Romeo, Armstrong-Siddeley, QAustin, Berkeley, Borgward, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Citroen, Crossley, Daihatsu, Datsun/Nissan, DKW, Dodge, Ford, Goggomobile, Graham, Heinkel, Hudson, Hupmobile, Jaguar, Lloyd, Marcos, Mazda, Mercedes, Messerschmidt, MG, Morris, Nash, Nissan/Datsun, NSU, Opel, Packard, Panhard, Peugeot, Polski-Fiat, Renault, Riley, Rover, Shamrock, Skoda, Standard, Studebaker, Toyota, Triumph, Vauxhall, VW, Wartburg, Willys, Wolseley.

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116777#Comment_122116777

Is the the same site as Chrysler? There is still a plaque in Santry Garda Station.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5381135702

Duke of Schomberg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115142#Comment_122115142

Skoda were first assembled by O'Hea [sic] & Co Ltd in Cork for a period in the mid-1950s. Then, after a short break, Buckley's Motors Ltd, Ringsend, Dublin, started assembly in 1959, ending in 1965. In 1974, following contacts made at the 1973 Earl's Court Motor Show assembly was restarted (along with Desta fork-lift trucks) by the Stephen O'Flaherty (no idea!) owned Eastern Autos Ltd, Seventh Lock Bridge, Dublin, which lasted until 1980.

blackbox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/84798550#Comment_84798550

There was a Semperit factory. I think it was somewhere around Ballyfermot.

Victor

Oh, what is being made these days? Is it just work vehicles, van / truck bodies and some trailers?

Fork lifts and similar work vehicles - Combilift https://combilift.com/

Ambulances and other custom vehicles -  Wilker Auto Conversions Ltd http://wilkergroup.com/

Fitzgeralds Vehicle Body Builders http://www.fitzgeraldsvbb.ie/

Gleeson Truck Bodies https://www.facebook.com/GleesonTruckBodies/

Quinn Refrigerated Vehicles https://quinnrv.com/

Cahill Truck Bodies http://www.cahilltruckbodies.ie/index.html

Thompson of Carlow  https://thompson.ie/

This page has a huge list https://www.localbusinesspages.ie/category.asp?category=commercial%20vehicles%20-%20body%20building

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117285#Comment_122117285

This was the factory: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37760853#map=17/53.33399/-6.35983 It has since been subdivided and re-clad. Semperit 38kV Substation is still there.

The Red Ace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/74135456#Comment_74135456

I worked at 70 upper Camden St in the seventies , the Jaguar showroom was next door