Speaking as a Liverpolitan and an ex-employee of Standard Triumph (Coventry) I can tell you that it was only the bodies of the cars that were built in the Liverpool factory. This was built with the help of huge government grants well after the war, probably late 50s, early 60s to help Liverpool overcome its deprived status.
The bodies were then loaded on covered transporters and driven all the way to the Fletchamstead Highway site in Coventry to be assembled.
I used to ‘plane spot’ on Speke Boulevard whence the DC3s would pass directly over our heads. The Rootes factory was down the end, but I think it might have passed to Lockheed Hydraulics by then.
Moggy
Aha! Another Scouser out of the Merseyside closet. I had no idea, Moggy as your accent doesn’t show on your forum posts. 😀 This explains how your first flight was from Speke (in GD) and you made a knowing comment about someone nicking a JCB from Parkgate. (!)
I only lived there for 17 years – Mostly in the South End (Aigburth, Allerton) and also on the Wirral (West Kirby).
One of the people I worked with in L’pool (now sadly deceased) was a Triumph employee who told a wonderful story about a Dolomite which was being assembled for a co-worker who was retiring which allgedly had every top-of-the-range add-on feature put on it before they got caught.
So, time to buy a copy of the Phil Butler book. I should have bought a copy of the Burtonwood story too. Is there anything written about Hooton Park?
R/K
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