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Rover and Rolls Royce works marked on German wartarget photograph, c.1940-41. PA41/1 fol. 1.
Standard, Humber-Hillman, Alvis, Singer, Coventry Radiator & Presswork, British Piston Ring, Daimler, Triumph Gloria, Dunlop Rim & Wheel, Morris Engineering and Swallow Coach Building on German wartarget map, with factories at Ryton, Hockley and Browns Lane, 1941. PA95.
Drapers' Company Inland Revenue tax-receipts, 1904-09. PA99/16/4; PA99/17/3; PA99/18;3; PA99/19/6; PA99/20/4.
Priory Motor Co.'s lease of Priory House, Dale Street, 1901-05. PA101/12/320-322,353-359,370,376.
Standard Motor Co.'s estimates for repairs to car involved in accident, 1932. PA101/12/454-455.
Hardware merchant's claim against George Webb of Earlsdon, bodymaker, for goods credited, 1932. PA101/122/1-28.
Brief in Warwickshire County Court (Coventry) case about a Maxwell car's age, 1927. PA101/125.
R.R. Panter of Riley Motors was interested in Coventry Sports & Social Association, 1944ff. PA240/3/2; PA240/11/1; PA240/18/3.
Wife of Reginald Durrance of Whoberley, motor-mechanic, had claim on 43/45/47/49/51, Saint Michael's Road; 76/78, Avon Street; and 42/44/46/48, Bramble Street, all Stoke, 1930-34. PA353/19-21.
Photograph of Duke of York visiting Coventry in 1905 car, c.1925. PA343/20.
Kenilworth Garage, Kenilworth, bills, 1954-55. PA343/73/220-234.
Bills and letter from S.H. Newsome & Co. Ltd., Coventry, motor-agents, 1954-55. PA344/73/331-338; PA344/180/12.
Memorandum about paying Warwickshire County Council for driving-licence, 1954. PA344/73/492.
Winemerchants' link with Rover Motor Co., 1946-55. PA344/79; PA344/180/13.
Winemerchants' link with Coventry Radiator & Presswork Co. Ltd., Canley, 1954-55. PA344/84/1; PA344/86; PA344/88.
Winemerchants' link with Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., 1955. PA344/85.
Jaguar Cars Ltd. business card, mid twentieth century. PA344/130/75.
Car-valuation, c.1955. PA344/171.
Coventry Motor Fittings Co. Ltd. patronised D.E. Collins & Co., winemerchants, 1955. PA344/180/1.
F.W. Bluemel patronised D.E. Collins & Co., 1955. PA344/180/2.
J.E. Neale leased Chapel Street premises to Rover Co., 1920-23. PA353/19/1-8.
1933 will of T.R. Norton of Earlsdon, motor and cycle agent, abstracted, 1938. PA353/19/43.
A.G. Smith, motor-body builder, bought 67, Harnall Lane East, 1950. PA353/19/120.
Singer Motors Ltd. held Lincoln Street premises, 1936-47. PA353/20/71-976 passim.
F.T. Robinson & Co. Ltd., motor-body builders, 1922-23. PA353/21.
Peter Raven & Co., Birmingham, accessories dealers, 1926-30. PA353/24.
Coventry Climax tenanted 275-279, The Vale, Acton, Middlesex, 1954-60. PA353/36/5-114.
Hillman-Humber Motor Co. Ltd. extended their Pinley estate, 1951. PA353/38.
Differences between Randle Radiators Ltd. and an agent (includes references to Humber, Armstrong-Siddeley, Maudslay, Cheylesmore Sheet Metal Co. and Renold Chain Co.), 1931-35. PA353/43.
Draft agreement for employment of works manager by Randle Radiators and subsequent disagreements), 1934: PA353/43/58-64.
Mulliners Ltd. in Red Lane district, 1901. PA362/26/32-40 passim.
William Hillman was a Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, 1912. PA242/3/26.
J.A. Cole, chairman of Humber Ltd., 1931 PA159/7/105.
William Pearson of Longford, commonplace book, 1901-41. PA164/1.
Mayor's diary,. 1945-46. PA410/1.
Access to Humber works, 1905. PA279/10/888.
Maxfield & Co., Birmingham employment-reference, 1910. PA279/10/1002 fol. 6.
Folly Lane land, plan, 1896. PA279/44/6232(ii).
Car-factories starting, 1896. PA279/44/6253.
Car-accidfent, Meriden hill, Warwickshire, 1898. PA279/44/6909,6913.
Mulliners' Foleshill factory, early twentieth century: PA279/44/7736,7755,7836,7865,7903,8167,8168,8470,9101,9513,11895: PA362/26/30,32-40.
Possible use of brickworks site for motorworks, 1905. PA279/44/8847.
Possible use of Gulson Road land, 1906. PA279/44/8999.
Humber Ltd. dealings with Irby-Hopkins estate, 1906-11: PA279/44/9054,9055,9071,9076,9081,9088,9137,9149,9836,10295.
Daimler Motor Co. wanted siding off Coventry-Nuneaton railway line, 1912-15. PA279/44/10960,11144.
Hippodrome Garage, Coventry supplied taxi-service, 1915-19. PA279/44/12089,12265,12774.
Daimler access, Narrow Lane [Widdrington Road], 1917. PA279/44/12273,12277.
Motor Union Insurance Co. Ltd., vouchers, 1922-23. PA279/64/13-15.
Sparkbrook Manufacturing Co. Ltd. resolutions, and memorandum and articles of association, 1897. PA215/8/1,2.
William Hillman's Keresley estate, 1894 - 1921. PA216/2/9-21.
William Hillman's will, 1892; codicil, 1928. PA216/2/15.
E.B. Wilks was an executor of William Hillman, 1921-28. PA216/2/9-21 passim.
John Black and Sydney Dick were two of WiIliam Hillman's sons-in-law, 1923. PA216/2/19.
Elizabeth II at Jaguar factory, 1956 (film). PA270/1.
Motor Clocks Stock Book, 1925-26. PA403/6/1.
Morris Motors Ltd., Cheylesmore regarding timepieces, 1949-51. PA403/38/13; PA403/40/151; PA403/68/131.
Fisher & Ludlow, pressers, Birmingham, regarding timepieces, 1949-59. PA403/39/999; PA403/40/91; PA403/41/63,64; PA403/42/67-70; PA403/43/60-66; PA403/44/54-57; PA403/45/36,37; PA403/55-61; PA403/47/23; PA403/48/6; PA403/68/83-86; PA403/70/85-93; PA403/71/35-38; PA403/72/50-59; PA403/73/27-30; PA403/74/16-24; PA403/75/10-13; PA403/76/4,5.
Rover Co. Ltd. regarding timepieces, 1939-49. PAA403/39/153; PA403/57/96; PA403/65/14-16.
Standard Motor Co.Ltd. regarding timepieces, 1946-50. PA403/39/182; PA403/64/18; PA403/67/217,218; PA403/68/152,153.
Harry Ferguson Ltd., tractor-manufacturers, regarding timepieces, 1951. PA403/41/62; PA403/69/128.
Coventry Radiator & Presswork Ltd., Parkside regarding timepeces, 1949. PA403/67/72.
Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd., Parkside regarding watch-glasses, 1951. PA403/69/17,18.
Lord Rootes congratulated an alderman on his Commandership of the British Empire, 1965. PA465/123/30.
Miss E.M. Tunnicliff's accident, 1966. PA465/60/1-4.
Alderman Sidney Stringer's accident-claim, 1967. PA465/264/1.
Coventry Eagle & Cycle Co. Ltd. Densmar Works, Foleshill, 1931. PA466/4/2 pp.288,322.
C. & E. Motors Ltd. near Canley Road, 1936-37. PA466/4/4 p.40; PA466/7/1 fol. 410.
Standard sold Tile Hill Lane land, 1937. PA466/4/4 p.244.
Land adjoining Model Garages Ltd., Allesley, 1939. PA466/4/4 pp.306,404.
Coventry Radiator & Presswork Ltd. land, Radford, 1941. PA466/4/4 p.441.
Lea-Francis had Jordan Well property, 1942. PA466/4/5 fol. 24.
High Cross Garage, Balsall Common, Warwickshire, 1933-43. PA466/4/5 fol. 155.
Lea-Francis owned 1, Saint Christian's Road, 1944. PA466/4/5 fol. 244.
Coventry Climax had property at Oswestry, Shropshire, 1943. PA466/4/5 fol. 246.
Coventry Eagle Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. factory, Lincoln Street, 1897 - 1938. PA466/5/1 pp. 297,309.
Harry Ferguson Ltd. owned the house called "Last Drop", Gibbet Hill Road, 1946. PA466/5/3 p.209.
Use of Bishopgate Road premises, 1907-26. PA466/5/4 p.294.
Standard property, Bishopgate Green, 1926-34. PA466/5/5 p.18.
Singer factory, Lincoln Street, 1921-37. PA466/5/5 p.34.
Coventry Radiator & Presswork Ltd. had Radford Semele, Warwickshire property, 1945. PA466/6/2 fol. 136.
Carbodies Ltd. Holyhead Road factory site, 1848 - 1954. PA466/7/1 fols. 72,73; PA466/8/3 fol. 150.
Daimler owned 36, Davies Street, London, 1946. PA466/7/1 fol. 146A.
Rover factory, New Meteor Works, pre 1945. PA466/7/1 fol. 278.
Coventry Radiator & Presswork Ltd. factory, Trafalgar Street, pre 1938 - 1946. PA466/7/1 fol. 305.
Lea-Francis Atlantic Works, Harefield Road, 1913-47. PA466/7/2 fol. 76.
Daimler owned Fowgay Hall, Solihull, 1946. PA466/8/1 fol. 521.
Carbodies Ltd. factory-site fronting Barkers Butts Lane, 1920-48. PA466/8/3 fol. 144.
Carbodies Ltd. factory-site near Holyhead Road, 1924-54. PA466/8/3 fol. 145.
Daimler Motor Mill site deeds, 1896 - 1915. PA466/16/3-5; PA466/18/1-4; PA466/19/1,2; PA466/21/3-9.
Footpath diversions involving Humber and Hillman, Stoke, 1914-24. PA476/16/14-17,19,21,22,24.
William Rootes chaired Coventry Reconstruction Co-Ordinating Committee, 1940-41. PA483/1.
Coventry & Warwickshire Motor Club to be wound up, c.1933. PA515/1/2/4.
William Morris' cure for unemployment, 1924. PA515/3/1.
Article about Sir Rowland Smith of Ford, 1950. PA515/3/3.
Bettmann's farewell to a Triumph worker, c.1931. PA515/12.
Weekly return of Triumph vehicle orders, key, c.1939. PA515/25.
Coventry Movement Manufacturing Co. Ltd. did work for the trade, 1912. PA543/6.
Armstrong-Siddeley Male Voice Choir, 1948. PA550/3/106.
Lorry loaned for carnival float, 1968. PA555/6/102.
Apprenticeship to Armstrong-Siddeley, 1946. PA568/4.
Parkside Garage proprietor concerned about ring-road route, 1959. PA578/47/36.
Riley Motor Co. employee loaned money to Coventry & County Club to 1930. PA578/57/98-102.
Clyno near Wolverhampton, 1926-29. PA586/50/1(d),2.
Humber Ltd. supported Coventry Children's Boot Fund, 1904. PA589/4/1.
Daimler, 1896 - 1943. PA594 passim.
Lanchester Motor Co., 1922-42. PA594/1/1/3/112-184; PA594/1/3/2/5,10-14,16; in PA594/3/2/6; PA594/3/3/4/1;PA594/4/6; PA594/5/1/12; PA594/11/3/1; PA594/12/2/4/2; PA594/19/1/3/3.
B.S.A. Cars (Ltd.), 1931-42. PA594/1/1/3/112-184; PA594/1/2/3/5,8,10-16; PA594/2/2/3/3; PA594/5/1/3/9; PA594/5/1/12; in PA594/12/2/4/2.
Austin Motor Co. Ltd., 1915-32. PA594/2/2/1/1; PA594/12/2/4/7; in PA594/13/3/1.
Rootes Ltd., 1926-31. PA594/2/2/1/2.
Morris Motors Ltd., 1930-33. PA594/2/2/1/3.
Leeds Piston Ring & Engineering Co. Ltd., 1937. PA594/3/2/16.
Associated Daimler Co. Ltd., 1925-28. PA594/4/1/4.
Improved Gears Ltd., 1930-37. PA594/4/1/5/1.
Constantinople Omnibus Co., 1934. in PA594/3/2/5.
Daimler bus department manager's file, 1927-34. PA594/3/2/9.
Daimler bus department employee's file, 1929-36. PA594/3/2/17.
Compagnie Daimlerways and Daimlerways, 1930-31. PA594/4/1/3/12/21-35; PA594/4/1/3/16,17.
La Compagnie B.S.A., 1909-27. PA594/4/1/3/15; PA594/4/8/3/5.
Sleeping-Car Buses (prospective company), 1928-29. PA594/43/1/3/18.
London General Omnibus Co. Ltd. accounts, 1925. in PA594/4/1/4/1.
A.J.S. Cycles [sic], 1931. PA594/4/1/7/1.
Douglas Motors Ltd., 1919. PA594/4/4/2/1.
Britannia Batteries Ltd., 1928-33. PA594/4/4/5.
£100 Morris Minor, 1932. PA594/5/1/3/7.
Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd. shareholding, 1936. PA594/9/1/2/2.
Companies prospectuses, c.1935. in PA594/9/1/5/2.
Rolls-Royce tenanted Daimler property, Hendon, Middlesex, 1938-40. PA594/10/2/5/9.
Enfield Autocar Ltd., 1906. PA594/12/1/1/2.
Societe Anonyme, Auto Mixte of Belgium, 1906-08. PA594/12/1/2.
Customised Rolls-Royces, 1926. in PA594/12/2/4/6.
Doubtful challenge by Daimler to Rolls-Royce, 1926. in PA594/12/2/8/3.
"Sherardizing" (rust-proofing process), 1924-27. PA594/12/2/9/1.
Alvis, 1935-36. PA594/12/2/11.
Calso Hood Co. Ltd., 1921-24. PA594/12/2/16.
Armstrong-Siddeley, 1930-32. PA594/13/5.
Bus-development in America, 1925. in PA594/145/2/1.
West Coast Motor Co. Ltd., 1925-29. in PA594/15/1/4.
Hooper & Co.(Coachbuilders) Ltd., 1925-33. PA594/15/1/5.
Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., 1923-32. PA594/15/1/6.
References to Gottlieb Daimler's son 1924. in PA594/17/1/1/3.
Stratton-Instone and Stratstone, dealers, 1932-36. PA594/17/1/1.
Star Motor Co.'s collapse, 1930-32. in PA594/17/1/2.
Daimler dealers, 1926-38. PA594/17/1/3-6.
B.S.A. group overseas agents, 1934-39. PA594/18.
Association of British Motor Manufacturers, 1925-30. PA594/21/1/4.
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, 1926-34. PA594/21/1/5.
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