Dealer Logos

[fordperv]

slightly off topic but does anyone have a picture of appleyard ford, Newcastle under lyme window sticker/ tax disc holder/ number plates, its being a pain in my behind finding the designs as the dealership shut in the late 80s early 90s and I need them so I can get some made up for mrs fordpervs s2 rs turbo as this is the dealership it came from

[Partridge]

No window sticker, but my car did come with this-

 

[sco14]

A Peugeot dealer logos near to me, they stopped selling new cars around 1995 because thier showroom/workshop did not meet franchise requirements. Sold used cars for a few more years.

 

A reproduction rear window sticker.

 

 

An original keyring which came with my car.

 

 

 

An original road tax holder which is still in use in the car which I purchased 26 years ago

 

[Lord Sterling]

'Reg Vardy' - Alot of small cars produced in the late 90s early 00s had these dealer stickers slapped on the back window.....

 

Reg Vardy was taken over by Pendragon a few years ago, although Reg's grandson launched the remarkably similar Peter Vardy soon after. My friend works in the stores of a former Vardy dealership, I'll ask him if he has any stickers lying around.

 

Great stuff Richard, the one on the Micra has unpeeled slightly and broken off so is looking a little unsightly. I replaced the tax disc holder with a 'Stourbridge Nissan' one, even the Reg Vardy holder had to be scraped off.

[simmo]

Found this tax disc holder, it looks pretty old, any ideas of an approx age, just out of interest

 

[D-Dubya]

all our 80s Austin Rovers had Hepburns of Crosby stickers and plates. cannot find any mention of them now

[cms206]

all our 80s Austin Rovers had Hepburns of Crosby stickers and plates. cannot find any mention of them now

My '92 Montego LX still wears it's Hepburns of Crosby dealer plates and sticker

[Lord Sterling]

Although my car orignally came from a Rover dealer in Scotland, for some reason I feel the need to stick on some 'Edwards of Stratford' Tax Disc holder/Number plates/rear screen sticker even though my car never came from there. For some unknown reason, the name 'Edwards of Stratford' pops into my head whe I see/think about my car. Wierd. I never name my cars but I feel to just call it 'Edwards of Stratford'.

[vulgalour]

I'll be getting a new one of these sorted out for the HLS one day, though I have to admit to it having a certain manky charm just the way it is.  The same could be said for the dealer sticker.

 

[cms206]

Although my car orignally came from a Rover dealer in Scotland, for some reason I feel the need to stick on some 'Edwards of Stratford' Tax Disc holder/Number plates/rear screen sticker even though my car never came from there. For some unknown reason, the name 'Edwards of Stratford' pops into my head whe I see/think about my car. Wierd. I never name my cars but I feel to just call it 'Edwards of Stratford'.

Is there any indication of who supplied it new, LS? I live along the road from an ex-(now demolished) Rover dealer. EGD could be any number of Rover dealers around here but the one that was along the road is the closest to where I picked it up.

[Albert Ross]

These date from approximately 1992ish, when my Sapphire was sold to it's previous owner. I have no idea of the original dealer, it's a London plate, and likely an ex-Hire car....

 

 

And finally, who remembers these? Did it ever deter anyone young from driving at night, if not, did you get stopped and questioned?

[Lord Sterling]

Is there any indication of who supplied it new, LS? I live along the road from an ex-(now demolished) Rover dealer. EGD could be any number of Rover dealers around here but the one that was along the road is the closest to where I picked it up.

The booklet in the car has 3 different business cards, 2 Rover dealership ones and one generic that suggest it was supplied from 'Shields Rover' (later simply Shields Automotive LTD) in St. Andrews Road, Glasgow G41 1PF. I street viewed up there when I had a look at the cards, the actual dealership in St. Andrews Road no longer exists, possibly demolished, but there is a Shields Land-Rover dealership in Kennishead Road, Glasgow, which has nothing to do with St. Andrews Road site.

 

I would love to get plates, stickers and tax disc holders made up for this thing but I doubt I can do such a thing anymore.

[trigger]

 

This brings back some memories, from when I was born until 1990 I lived directly opposite this garage, I still remember when the Renault 21 and 25 came out and all the stickers on the windows, in 1990 we had the Burns day storm and all the yellow squares which the Renault sign was made up of blew off and ended up down the road.

 

Sadly it's now a housing estate, like most old garages.

 

[Hendry]

The booklet in the car has 3 different business cards, 2 Rover dealership ones and one generic that suggest it was supplied from 'Shields Rover' (later simply Shields Automotive LTD) in St. Andrews Road, Glasgow G41 1PF. I street viewed up there when I had a look at the cards, the actual dealership in St. Andrews Road no longer exists, possibly demolished, but there is a Shields Land-Rover dealership in Kennishead Road, Glasgow, which has nothing to do with St. Andrews Road site.

I would love to get plates, stickers and tax disc holders made up for this thing but I doubt I can do such a thing anymore.

Shields Land Rover on Kennishead road and Shields Rover of St Andrews road were the same company, the site at St Andrews road is now a block of flats,

 

Wee bit of history is Shields was originally Lex Rover and Toyota, when the Lex group broke up there was a management buyout of the dealership, it later gained a Mazda franchise, then a Land Rover franchise then Peugeot, they outgrew the site so relocated the Land Rover franchise to kennishead road, then the Peugeot franchise got moved there too (the Ford dealer along the road from Land Rover on Kennishead road on Google streetview is where Peugeot was) then after MGR went bust in 2005 Mazda and Toyota got moved to Kennishead road and the St Andrews road site got sold for development. I'll take a photo next time I see a car from Shields as they were still going until recently until their Ford and Mazda dealerships got taken over by Vertu/Bristol Street Motors, Arnold Clark bought their Toyota sites and Lookers/Taggarts bought Land Rover, their plates and stickers have remained the same from they began trading until they sold out.

[Hendry]

Btw, anyone wanting reproduction plates, stickers and tax disc holders, look up a company called DMB Graphics, they specialise in this sort of thing.