Jack Frodsham - Warrington

[oldcars]

My reliant still has the original dealer sticker in the back window.

I have tried to find info out online about them but there is nothing i can find. Anyone from the area remember them? Car is 1983 Y plate so they must have been open at this time. From the sticker they sold Reliants & Honda bikes.

[Bren]

No dealers on Winwick St any more - to be honest I cannot remember ever seeing one.

[Ghosty]

Some Google-fu told me there used to be a Vauxhall/Opel dealer there.

[MrFarkinBasz]

top car sticker though!

[Guest xj40man]

I know I am ressurecting an old post but I came across this when doing some research. Jack Frodsham Limited was indeed a multi franchise motorcycle and Reliant dealer in Warrington for many years. I worked there as a salesman from about 1979 to 1984 and earned the princely sum of £1 commission for selling a bike and £2 for a Reliant   Iirc we sold Triumph, Lambretta, CZ, Honda, Yamaha and NVT bikes.

The workers at Tamworth must have all had bad knees as they never quite seemed to paint all the way down to the bottom of the body, I would get a can of matching spray out of the stores and finish the job for them    

The boss was called Mr Etherington, we had a one armed storeman and a tea lady called Gladys who was a bit of a rum 'un.  

 

I remember selling fully comp insurance for a Honda 90 or similar was £17.50pa, any driver 

 

It closed down a number of years later and the building was demolished and redeveloped. 

 

There was also another bike shop further up the road called Bill Pope Motorcycles, they were a Suzuki dealer.

 

I had a choice of any motorcycle to go home on, first day I worked there I went home on a 1000 BMW, Happy days.

[oldcars]

I know I am ressurecting an old post but I came across this when doing some research. Jack Frodsham Limited was indeed a multi franchise motorcycle and Reliant dealer in Warrington for many years. I worked there as a salesman from about 1979 to 1984 and earned the princely sum of £1 commission for selling a bike and £2 for a Reliant   Iirc we sold Triumph, Lambretta, CZ, Honda, Yamaha and NVT bikes.

The workers at Tamworth must have all had bad knees as they never quite seemed to paint all the way down to the bottom of the body, I would get a can of matching spray out of the stores and finish the job for them    

The boss was called Mr Etherington, we had a one armed storeman and a tea lady called Gladys who was a bit of a rum 'un.

 

I remember selling fully comp insurance for a Honda 90 or similar was £17.50pa, any driver 

 

It closed down a number of years later and the building was demolished and redeveloped. 

 

There was also another bike shop further up the road called Bill Pope Motorcycles, they were a Suzuki dealer.

 

I had a choice of any motorcycle to go home on, first day I worked there I went home on a 1000 BMW, Happy days.

Thanks for this, very interesting. There is a good chance you originally sold my Reliant, April 1983 would have been the sale date, a blue Rialto GLS do you remember selling it    .

Thanks for your post, made my day been trying yo find out a bit of history about my old car. Thanks again.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

That's interesting information.  I don't remember the dealer, but I do remember seeing the stickers on cars.

 

I recognise that Jag in your profile! It is a superb car. 

 

I am 'David' on xj40.com. It will come as a surprise to many on here, but 'Magnificent Rustbucket' isn't my real name. I called myself that here for some reason when I joined one evening. I'd had a bit too much booze and it seemed amusing. I regretted it immediately - it takes ages to type and sounds a bit pretentious!

 

Maybe my rustbucket is 'Magnificent' in the same way the Great Flydini was great?

[Tayne]

 

The boss was called Mr Etherington, we had a one armed storeman and a tea lady called Gladys who was a bit of a rum 'un.

 

 

Brilliant!

[Guest xj40man]

I probably did sell it, tell me the first three letters of the reg number which may jog my old brain cells. Lots of memories flooding back now.... JFL also had some workshops in the railway arches near Central Station. At one point one of them was full to the brim of British motorbikes which at the time nobody wanted. It was that full you had to walk across the bike seats to get from one side to the other. Anyway the whole lot were sent for scrap, how times change.

[HillmanImp]

I thought that Jack Frodsham was the Sausage King of Chicago or am I getting him confused with someone else?

[Tayne]

Google tells me that would be Abe Froman.

[KED453F]

On 5/29/2015 at 6:08 PM, Guest xj40man said:

I know I am ressurecting an old post but I came across this when doing some research. Jack Frodsham Limited was indeed a multi franchise motorcycle and Reliant dealer in Warrington for many years. I worked there as a salesman from about 1979 to 1984 and earned the princely sum of £1 commission for selling a bike and £2 for a Reliant   Iirc we sold Triumph, Lambretta, CZ, Honda, Yamaha and NVT bikes.

The workers at Tamworth must have all had bad knees as they never quite seemed to paint all the way down to the bottom of the body, I would get a can of matching spray out of the stores and finish the job for them    

The boss was called Mr Etherington, we had a one armed storeman and a tea lady called Gladys who was a bit of a rum 'un.  

 

I remember selling fully comp insurance for a Honda 90 or similar was £17.50pa, any driver 

 

It closed down a number of years later and the building was demolished and redeveloped. 

 

There was also another bike shop further up the road called Bill Pope Motorcycles, they were a Suzuki dealer.

 

I had a choice of any motorcycle to go home on, first day I worked there I went home on a 1000 BMW, Happy days.

Hi do you know any more about Bill pope motors Ltd please they supplied my Triumph spitfire mk3 in November 1967  when it was new l would like to find a photo of the garage or some advertising for them, It looks like they ended up as a motorbike dealer, from reading your post they might have been a car and motor bike dealer in the 1960s?