Standard Triumph Archive

Did you work at the Standard or Triumph – at Canley, Radford, Banner Lane, Northey Road, Allesley, Tile Hill, Western Avenue (London), Bordesley Green (Birmingham), Speke (Liverpool), Berkeley Square (London) or any of the associated sites/companies associated with Standard Triumph? If so, we’d love to hear from you to build a database of names associated with the Standard and Triumph company. Read More HERE. You may notice adverts on the site. You can help this site by clicking on them which supports the archive. Thank you.

Ex-employees Directory 2

To add a name, click on the ‘Submit a Name’ link above.
Please add the surname first. Use the format: Smith, John in the name field, then add a description; here you can include a role, location, service dates etc plus any other information you think may be of interest, finishing with your name (you may be submitting on behalf of a family member). Don’t worry how much – or little – you write in the description box – everything helps!
PLEASE NOTE: By using the ‘submit name’ element on the site we DO NOT get any record of you or your email and sometimes we’d love to get in touch with you, but we can’t! Please either drop your email details on the entry (don’t worry we won’t publish that) or a separate email to say ‘hello’.
Thank you.
We’d love you to get involved with this project. You can email us your info to iwas@standardtriumph.co.uk or post a name directly on the ‘submit name’ link.


Update:
2026. This is the brand new domain name for the Standard Triumph Archive.
The original sites (triumphworks.co.uk and standardtriumphworks.co.uk) will no longer be used and will be disconnected in due course.

2025. The site was subject to a major cyber attack. It is sad there are people out there that wish to ruin everything.

The archive has now over 4,000 name entries and with 871 articles on the site. During May, 2018 we reached 100,000 website hits.  May 2019 we reached 500,000 website hits. February 2022 we achieved one million hits! Take a look at the Latest News posts to see the articles.

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ALF WELCH – Read about a character who was one of the inspirations to this archive.

Thank you for all the submissions in the database. In addition some people have articles, info, memories and photos. We’ll show everything, that comes in, at some point soon, please bear with us. We still need more… Email your stories today!

Would you like to contribute regularly to the site? Let us know.

NB. Due to SPAM attacks registration to the site is currently suspended. Genuine people please get in touch via email. Thank you.
This website was launched February 1, 2017.

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LATEST POSTS

• Alf Welch – Service Instructor in Market Promotion and Training - On the first anniversary of the launch of this website archive we thought we’d write something about Alf Welch.
• 1925 Dispatch Dept. - A superb photo from 1925 showing the Dispatch Department at Canley.
• Vincent White – Catering Department - It was to have been a quiet Sunday afternoon in the park. But within minutes of parking his Standard car at Stanford Hall, Lord Braye’s home near Rugby, Mr. Vincent White was in the river tackling a youth who was armed with an air pistol and a sheath knife.
• Arthur Brooks – Salvage - Arthur Brooks joined Standard Triumph in 1932. At first he was employed on material handling — the hard way —when built-up axle casings had to be unloaded by hand from railway wagons. Later he supervised internal transport and the powered conveyor loaders.
• David Mileham – Apprentice - I started work as an apprentice draughtsman at the Standard Motor Co in January 1959. I still have my indentures!
• Put That Light Out! - A fantastic artefact direct from the Standard Motor Co factory… can you guess what it is?
• John Clarke - I have just found your site whilst searching for a reference to Standard Triumph holiday camp in Weston-Super-Mare. My family went every year to this camp and I have such wonderful memories of it.
• Sue Wareham - Receiving customers from overseas brought the title of Export Hostess to Sue Wareham.
• Mike Hales – Vehicle Electrician Part 2 - April 1980 I moved to Drayton Road in Birmingham, working for Rover in their experimental dept.
• The Last Spitfire – Again! - A poignant photograph from the Peter Richardson archive with a message from the workers.
• Athletics - Standard Triumph entered a team in the Coventry Apprentice Association annual sports and came 9th out of 20 teams.
• Mike Hales – Vehicle Electrician Part 1 - I joined the Final Finish at Canley, as a Trainee Vehicle Electrician, in 1966, working with Phil Robinson, Mack McKay, and John Ward.
• Electrical Team - This photograph was taken from the roof of the Social Club in 1986 says Mike Hales.
• 35 Years Service - Mike Hales has been in touch with this photo – can you recognise anyone?
• Christine Thomson - In July 1960, Christine Thomson, formerly secretary to Assistant Materials Engineer, Fletch. North, left for Hollywood, after three years at Standard’s.
• Standard Van - Months before July this year Mr P. J. McGrath, a millwright at Tile Hill Lane, had decided on a holiday in Italy.
• 1930’s Standard Motor Co. Staff - Early photographs are scarce from the Standard Motor Co – and if any do crop up there is often very little detail to accompany the images.
• Peter Alan Robinson – Shop Steward. 21 Shop - Peter Alan Robinson, Shop Steward. 21 Shop. Peter has sadly passed away on 17th January, 2019.
• A Trio of Standard Triumph Ladies - Three photographs of three ladies who worked at Standard Triumph.
• Tony Stringer – Service Mechanic, Allesley - Tony Stringer, a Nuneaton man, is the service mechanic from Allesley Depot travelling with the TR4 American Rally in Europe.
• Telephone Exchange - Three members of staff from the Telephone Exchange, Canley.
• Pauline McGonigle, Allesley - Miss Pauline McGonigle, a typist in the Audio Pool for five years at Allesley, married Steven Hill, who works in the Engine Shop, Canley.
• Canley Halt - I remember the bus going over these crossings to get home to Canley. And all the workers coming out of the Standard, and then the Covrad seems so long ago. Ronald Bayliss
• Lord Tedder – Chairman Standard Triumph - Lord Tedder Chairman from 1954 to 1960.
• Christine Keeling – Supplies Division - Miss Christine Keeling, a shorthand-typist in Supplies Division, Canley, was married at St. Mary Magdalene, Earlsdon.
• Michael Hales – Automotive Electrician - I joined Standard in 1966, at the Canley plant.

 

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