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  3. F.Mitchell Triumph dealership records

    in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum

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    Hello everyone in Nottingham,

    My name is Paul Clark and I have just joined the forums to dig up some info if I can, about F.Mitchell, the erstwhile Triumph dealership in Nottingham. I have seen a discussion thread elsewhere in the forum mentioning that showroom).

    It's a long story...

     

    When I was a lad (always a good opening on a nostalgia blog), I used to ride in my uncle's Triumph TR3 (or possibly a 3A). It was red with black upholstery, and that was around about 1965 when I was 11 years old. He sold the car a few years later as I recall. I am now just reaching retirement age and I have decided to try and track down that car, to discover what became of it. Now unfortunately I have no photos, and the only identification is from a cousin who remembers the registration was ERA. So based on the age of the car it would be nnnERA, NOT ERAnnn. 

     

    DVLA have been singularly unhelpful - but I have traced (through various TR owner's clubs) one TR3 with a registration 798ERA and been in contact with the owner - but for various reasons I have ruled this out as being the same car (different colour at manufacture etc). BUT the owner of THAT car knows that it was manufactured in 1957 and left the factory destined for F.Mitchell. A google search returns this http://vitessesteve.blogspot.com/2018/11/mitchells-of-nottingham-triumph-car.html which is interesting.

     

    In those days, before even the DVLCs days, councils would issue a batch of registration numbers to a garage, and they would use them on new car sales as required. So i am thinking that if in 1957, F.Mitchell sold a Triumph TR3 with registration 798ERA, it is entirely possible that other TR3 or 3As were sold by Mitchells around the same time with OTHER registrations containing nnnERA. And one of those could be the car I am seeking.

     

    So this is where I am seeking help from you all - can anyone recall the history of F.Mitchell, and what became of it. There is the slightest of chances that sales records exist, if I can pin down what became of the company.

    I look forward to any replies.

    Regards,

    Paul

     

    PS - I should also mention that I don't have much connection with Nottingham, but when I was working for ICL (based down south) I used to travel about doing one-week training courses, and one of them was for a health authority in Nottingham. I do remember going to Yates' Wine Lodge in Nottingham and there being an ornate mezzanine floor with a string quartet playing. Am I imagining that or does anyone else remember that - probably 1980s.