Dealer Logos

[Craig the Princess]

What dealer logo is closest to your heart?

 

My 306 came from the Rootes garage in Maidstone so it felt nice and Hillmany. My Ambassador came from Mann Egerton in Kings Lynn and still has its sticker which is like this one

 

 

And my friend just left a picture of this American dealer sticker on facebook

 

[Alexg]

Rootes of Maidstone became Robins and Day about 5 years ago and is now partly owned by Peugeot . I remember there used to be Talbot cladding on the building well into the 90s

[warren t claim]

Kirbys of Wrexham. The small circular stickers they used to put in the rear window of every Ford they sold brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.

[Guest]

I Like to see the Mann Egerton ones as I used to work for them in the 1980's

But I will put these here because - - - - -

-- in the 1970's these were a British Leyland dealer which could be known as Electric Leyland. Where have I seen that name before

[Lord Sterling]

'Furrows for Ford' logo that came on most Shropshire-registered new Ford in the late 80s and early 90s. One used to adorn my Mums old Mk3 Fiesta.

 

'Hartwell Charles Clark Rover' - Nothing exciting, just the name 'Charles Clark' in the same style as the early 90s Rover sign on a Dark Red background. I think I've got something with 'Hartwell ??? Rover' on it.

 

'Reg Vardy' - Alot of small cars produced in the late 90s early 00s had these dealer stickers slapped on the back window. Dark Red background with a big Gold 'V' sign with 'Reg Vardy' next to it. Makes me smile when I see one on the back of a 98+ Micra. To be honest I am looking for a Reg Vardy sticker to replace the one peeling off the Micra if anyone knows where I can get one. Reg Vardy is no more as I understand.

[Craig the Princess]

Currie Motors - I still remember the radio adverts for Mk 4 Escorts.

They were nice people to do business with.

[Pete-M]

'Furrows for Ford' logo that came on most Shropshire-registered new Ford in the late 80s and early 90s. One used to adorn my Mums old Mk3 Fiesta.

 

Possibly something to do when I worked at Budget. We used to buy about 150-200 new Fords a year from there as they did a great fleet deal. Pretty much every Ford I rented out between 99-01 had Furrows reg plates.

 

My favourite dealership was the legendary J.Blake & Co, later Blakes. Then they purpose built a huge great site in Prescot and imploded after 150 years. My dad worked for them in the '50s.

 

[warren t claim]

^^^ I remember a different Blakes logo, the one with the key.

[Cavcraft]

No pictures (yet) but Anchor Motors (which morphed into James Edwards) of Chester, purely because I spent so much time there as a kid on a Saturday morning with my dad looking through brochures.

For the same reason 'More & Gamon' (Austin/Rover and where we saw our first talking dash Maestro) in Chester, now a bloody Kwik-Fit (up) of all places, and also Quicks of Chester in the city centre right by the river as used to collect brochures and drool over such stuff as the Mk2 Escort Pop Plus, Cortina Mk4 2.0 and 2.3 S and various others. Sadly Quicks pulled out of the city centre a while back now and the ace building they were in is stood empty. It was a huge place with servicing/repairs above the showroom.

What's the betting it gets bought by a building company and turned into even more poncey £250,000 flats that will remain empty for years?

[504GL]

I feel slightly grumpy that I didn't get any dealer stickers when I picked up my 500.

[Pete-M]

^^^ I remember a different Blakes logo, the one with the key.

 

So do I, but I can't find a pic of that one.

[boobydoo]

Currie Motors - I still remember the radio adverts for Mk 4 Escorts.

They were nice people to do business with.

 

I worked at the Edmonton branch from 1991-1994.

We had an elderly receptionist called Edna who , due to being about 102, always had to nip off to the lav. This would mean us salesmen having to answer the phone. Woe betide if one the bosses phoned up and you didn't answer the phone correctly. i.e.

 

"Thank-you for calling Currie Motors. Nice people to do business with. 'INSERT NAME' speaking, how can I help?"

It was quite a mouthful.

 

Twice a year we would have a promotion where we would open til midnight for 3 days with reduced prices on Used cars. It was called Currie Motors Midnight Madness. Hence you would have to answer the phone thus:

 

"Thank-you for calling Currie Motors, nice people to do business with. So and so speaking.Our Midnight Madness is now on, how can I help."

Most callers had either died, written a novel, or hung up by the time you got to the end.

[carlo]

Hortons of Watford, Peugeot dealer in the 80s and nineties. I worked there in the late 80s and it was a particularly good time in my life, first selling job involving my favourite cars.

 

 

Taken over by Palmers of Watford in 2001, I'd pay good money for any original Hortons stuff like stickers and tax discs etc.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I Like to see the Mann Egerton ones as I used to work for them in the 1980's

But I will put these here because - - - - -

 

[all electric sticker images]

 

-- in the 1970's these were a British Leyland dealer which could be known as Electric Leyland. Where have I seen that name before

 

I love these stickers. They looked so old I was surprised by the post 94 phone number, although it's obvious the zero has been moved to the left a bit to accommodate the extra digit. I'd hope they still put them on their cars, but their flashy website suggests they've moved on.

[alf892]

I used to work for Marshalls who were an Austin Rover dealer at the time.......the logo was ordinary but the slogan was 'where the customer comes first'

 

Management were not amused when it was pointed out that this would also be a good slogan for a the local knocking shop.

[Spottedlaurel]

I'm happy to see anything with the Mann Egerton Tern:

 

Mann Egerton and Botwoods Austin ad, 1967 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

They had a good spread of dealerships in Norfolk and Suffolk so are something I remember from being young, and I still see their stickers on things as disparate as a VW Polo, '70s Sherpa or Ford Tractor.

 

I have a set full of dealer sticker photos (just noticed the first Mann Egerton one is mine, if possible please credit or use the link if you lift my photos off Flickr) and they're something I always look out for.

 

For local interest, I'm happy to see these:

 

Bluebird dealer sticker - Riddelsdell Bros by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Still yet to find one with the BL/ARG logo on, which they'd sold for many years prior to Subaru and Isuzu.

 

And these used to be common until recently:

 

Constitution Motors dealer sticker (Sunny B11) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Sadly most new car stickers seem to be a standard format these days, so the local ones don't stand out.

[Guest]

Sad to say some I have seen are just the www. address

[trigger]

A few from my collection.

 

1981 Morris Ital 1.3 HL Lavender Hill Garage Enfield Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1978 Vanden Plas 1500 Braintree Motor Company Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1972 Ford Escort 1300 Estate Mk 1 Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1989 Ford Escort XR3i Mk4 Gilbert Rice Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1973 Ford Cortina 1600 XL Mk 3 Nunns dealer sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1973 Ford Granada 3.0 V6 GXL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

My 1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1976 Skoda S110L by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1973 Renault 15 TS Fred Winter Darlington Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1978 Ford Escort 1.6 Mexico E Hodgson and Son Dealer Sticker Retford by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1983 MG Metro 1300 Original Dealer Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[BMC Dan]

From the old VDP, now a Vauxhall dealership:

 

[kinkersaab]

not noticed before but our stickers have a very autoshite look about them

 

 

in fact, our building is a bit autoshite like in the colour scheme

 

[andrew e]

I BUY DAN PERKINS! Well I haven't, but thousands of Nissan sunnys proudly crazed round southall once declaring the fact.

[simmo]

And 'Dan Dan the Nissan Man' they had a sevice workshop in Hillingdon

[simmo]

An Ex's mum used to do the design for the dealer stickers for most of the Peugeot Dealerships, they had to be Peugeot approved and were mostly in yellow and blue and had to have the lion. She had a folder with all the designs in, this wasin the early eighties.

[trigger]

And 'Dan Dan the Nissan Man' they had a sevice workshop in Hillingdon

 

1990 Nissan Bluebird 2.0i GSX Auto in Hopton on Sea by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[simmo]

Thinking about it he used to be 'Dan Dan the Datsun Man' and there is still a Dan Perkins in Eastcote

 

Spottedlaurel has a photo of a Dan P plate on his ficker account.

[andrew e]

Dan Perkins in slough because WLMG a couple of years back, sometimes you spot the plastic moulded badge too. Got any Perrys badges trigger?

[trigger]

Got any Perrys badges trigger?

 

Nope that's all of them!

[Tartan58]

 

'Reg Vardy' - Alot of small cars produced in the late 90s early 00s had these dealer stickers slapped on the back window. Dark Red background with a big Gold 'V' sign with 'Reg Vardy' next to it. Makes me smile when I see one on the back of a 98+ Micra. To be honest I am looking for a Reg Vardy sticker to replace the one peeling off the Micra if anyone knows where I can get one. Reg Vardy is no more as I understand.

 

It's now Peter Vardy, I presume old Reg has gone to a better place. Not sure what the Peter Vardy logo is, I could google it but I don't really care that much.

 

One of my favourites is the local independent GR Grandison don't have a photo but the top of their website is basically their sticker http://www.grgrandison.com/ they've obviously never changed it since the 70s and looks kind of out of place on 08 micras and the like. They used to put their own mud flaps on every car they sold up until the early 00s, again with their bright yellow logo on them - it was just so naff it was cool!

[gricer]

It's now Peter Vardy, I presume old Reg has gone to a better place. Not sure what the Peter Vardy logo is, I could google it but I don't really care that much.

 

 

 

Old Reg died many years ago, and Peter (his son) built up the business in the 1980s and 90s. He sold out to Pendragon in 2006, and has ploughed his fortune into, among oter things, funding Christian schools with an allegedly creationist stance (though he denies this and has got legal over the issue).

 

The current Peter Vardy dealer business is run by Peter Vardy Jr, grandson of Reg.

[tonedepear]

 

Not old or particularly shite, but there's a garage in Durham called GMD. All their cars have a big blue sticker in the back window which simply says GMD.

 

I always giggle at these, cos to me GMD means:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glam_Metal_Detectives

 

Edit: I worked for Reg Vardy's in Rovrum. NOT the worst company to work for, unusually.

 

IIRC Reg Vardy started up with a horse and cart shop or something, Sir Peter Vardy was gaffer when I was there, and HIS son Peter Vardy is the proprietor of the current Peter Vardy lot. Good luck to him.