Car Dealers, Garages, Petrol Stations

I and wonder if it brings any memories back to anyone on here. Midland Cylinder ReBores

Liked the shot too. These workshops were great places, full of character, oil and old machines. Hard to find one now. Had my two Humber engines rebored years ago, one in a place very much like this one, albeit in Scotland. BTW, liked the Humber Hawk Estate photo above. Very clean. Looks a circa 1960 model.

I used Midland Cylinder regular, very helpful for headsets, or if you are unfortunate enough to break a ring on reassembly they would soon find a replacement. Wasn't their place right down the bottom of Leicester Causeway? I seem to think the one in the pic is Coventry Boring and Metalling then again maybe not.

When I zoomed in on the link just now, the advertising board starts with 'Midland' I think. There is a little shop to the right as well, wonder what that would have been.

Just street levelled it Foxcote, it is now Avenue Garage, and the shop next door is now Ye Ould Curiosity Shoppe. I must have got confused with Cov Boring which is just up a bit in Coniston Road

Hi, the address is correct for Midland Cylinder Rebores. It was just down from the Hearsall Common. I once carried a crankshaft from Eastcotes down to there only to be told it was scrap and then carried it back again. Believe it or not, me dad filed that crankshaft journal "round" again and my brother made me a new big-end bearing for it at his works (Sandy Lane Garage, yes, the bus depot). My little Standard 8 went on for another 20,000 miles before I sold it. £15. I used Midland Cylinder a lot in those days.

1963 with column-mounted gear stick and overdrive; I kept it in the Stondon motor museum (www.motor-museum.co.uk) until recently, and then it went to a Humber lover down on the south coast.

When the ring road was built, the line of it went along the side of Blamire's garage, which was retained. The garage remained until about the mid-1980's, and the site is now occupied by an office building called Kings Chambers.

An old picture of my late dad's pitch in Little Park St early 50s. Any one remember it?

What a great picture! I managed to find this letter from your father in Planning Records

Thanks for that splendid piece of nostalgia, I have memories of both depots and playing in the rear yard at Little Park St in the vehicles, and living at the Old Smithy Garage on London Rd.

When did Brandish deal in Lanchester and Daimler as well as Vauxhall?

Does anyone remember this workshop in Awson Street. 'The Quick Motor Service'

I worked in Awson Street about that time Foxcote, at The Awson Motor Carriage, funny thing I don't remember the garage, not to worry next time maybe

My brother-in-law Len Brearton was manager of Newsome's Garage in Walsgrave opposite the Clifford Bridge Rd junction during the late 50s and early 60s. He gave me a part-time evening job on the petrol pumps. I bought a new Standard Vanguard from there, bench front seat, steering column gear shift with overdrive plus a strong thirst for petrol. I later traded that for a Minx Easy drive. As Sam Newsome also owned the Hippodrome we could occasionally get in backstage and met several performers. Les