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NeilsYard
Coventry
256 of 361  Tue 7th Jan 2020 9:51am  

Thanks to Bridie Shields and the Coventrians FB page - petrol queues for the Motor Mart garage on London Road. Long queues are forming in a bid by motorists to beat the 6pm deadline, after which a 5d increase would be applied. 22nd November 1968.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
257 of 361  Tue 7th Jan 2020 9:51am  

And another - queues more than 100 yards long build up outside one Coventry garage as motorists fill up before tomorrow's price increases. Gulson Garage, Binley Road, Coventry, West Midlands. 19th December 1974.
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Prof
Gloucester
258 of 361  Tue 7th Jan 2020 12:12pm  

Newsomes had a showroom in Corporation Street, my late wife's aunt was a secretary there (30s-40s I think)
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
259 of 361  Tue 7th Jan 2020 2:44pm  

I remember their later showrooms on the A45 by the island (roundabout for purists) opposite the Styvechale pub. It was a local landmark, and everyone use to refer to the island as Newsome's Island. It caused amusement in class when, in French lessons, nous sommes cropped up.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
260 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 9:03am  

I hadn't realised they were there Slim. What year would that have been? Guessing it was on the spot now taken by the Peugeot dealer - anyone got an image?
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
261 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 9:32am  

Yes, it's now the Peugeot garage. If memory serves me correctly, they were there about 1970, maybe earlier. They also had main workshops in Job's Lane.
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bohica
coventry
262 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:01am  

I think they were 'Henlys' for quite a long time in the 80s/90s
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Slim
Another Coventry kid
263 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:04am  

Thank you, that was the name I was struggling to remember. They were indeed Henleys, but everyone still called it Newsomes (island or garage). Old habits die hard.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
264 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 10:37am  

Yes I remember it there as Henly's. Just found this - an 'F' plate would make it 1967.
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry
265 of 361  Wed 8th Jan 2020 1:36pm  

It's still a local landmark and is usually referred to nowadays as Henly's Roundabout
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vitessesteve
Newark UK
266 of 361  Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:12am  

Bobby Gould, Coventry City centre forward takes delivery of a Triumph Spitfire 3 from Mr. D. Harty of S. H. Newsome and Co. Ltd. This image is from the Standard Triumph Review November 1967 and featured in my blog post about S H Newsome of Coventry here.
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Midland Red

267 of 361  Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:25am  

Brill, Steve! Thank you!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
268 of 361  Thu 9th Jan 2020 9:37am  

Nice one, Steve - it just appeared under a Google search for me, so hope you didn't mind me adding. Lucky chaps, them footballers!
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NeilsYard
Coventry
269 of 361  Thu 16th Jan 2020 5:00pm  

Highway Garage - now the Peugeot dealer?
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NeilsYard
Coventry
270 of 361  Fri 24th Apr 2020 5:01pm  

Swan Lane Garage, which has been mentioned on here a few times, 1965. I think this is Ford Street at the junction with Priory Street.
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