Thread: Annand & Thompson

Originally Posted by scarry

Some things dont seem to change

Just the dealers.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

... We at Leyalnd T&B were given A&T's delivery & warranty record cards but these did not survive the 1974 flood when the Leyland building went some 20' under.

I always wondered about the A&T books, it's sad that they weren't preserved the same as the Grenville allocations books.

Originally Posted by GSKeeper

... as I have seen a few Series 1's with the brass Annand & Thompson plates, but until today I hadn't seen them on a Series 2 or 2A. ...

The little brass A&T plate on my 1951 80" were originally nickel plated with blue paint inlaid into the etched parts. They were later replaced with a photo etched plate and still later by a sticker, all the same colours and size.



The A&T heavy duty conditions plate is so much better than the Grenville Motors one of the same vintage!

Found this too I bought this at a swap last year an original sales brochure

G'day Folks

I worked for A&T during the mid 60's after returning to Qld when my marrage broke up, they were Rover, Landrover and VW agents, drove my first 1500 sedan then, and found out that to select reverse you do NOT LIFT the lever (Morris Minor style) at the corner of Queen and Albert Sts to reverse park out side the T& G building, lever comes out in your hand

As GS keeper stated, when I passed there last month it was a big hole in the ground one of my weekly jobs was to take Mr Thompson's Rover 105R over to the detailing dept at Appolo Rd Bulimba and wash/vaccuum his Deep Green Saloon loved the handbrake on the floor,it went very well, I still have some service letters signed by George Heirdsfield, between 63 and 66 and some Landrover & accessories pricelists from 1962

also the original service letter stating that with Michelin "X" radial tyres to set the Toe-In on Landrovers to "Zero" service letter 5/65 dated March 1965



cheers

G'day Uncle,

Some interesting history their re: A&T, explains your dept of knowled regarding all things Rover..

I don't really need another Landy (not that this has ever stopped me before) but this particular vehicle is of interest because of it's Brisbane background (me being a S/E Qld boy) N.B also has Pressed Metal Company plate...did they all come through Sydney?

While it appears very original except for the Holden 186, it is "Very" tired and has been sitting of an unknown number of years..... I would just like to save it from going to China as scrap because that's where it is headed.

I might have to go back for another look, and maybe get a couple of photo's.

Ben

Originally Posted by GSKeeper

N.B also has Pressed Metal Company plate...did they all come through Sydney?

Ben

Pressed Metal Corporation was the Australian Assembly plant (part of LNC Industries) that took over the contract of all Australian assembly of Land Rover from the middle of the 1950s.

Annand and Thompson sourced some of it's stock direct from the U.K. and some from Pressed Metals. In fact it seems that all the major state distributors used to swap stock back and forth depending upon local need. This is evidenced by the Grenville Motors books having frequent notations where an entire batch would be sent to another distributor and "repaid" by another batch of subsequent vehicles.

Diana

G'day Lotz-A-Landies

Yup! new vehicle and parts stock transfer, boy did it cause headaches
almost as bad as trying to keep track of warranty claims from country dealers and then trying to get it approved by Solihull, all this in the days before computers, with the transfers hand written mostly, and communication with UK by Telex the answers which could take months

But, I liked the old cardex system, could not disappear with a touch of the "Delete" button, as happens now

cheers

Originally Posted by UncleHo

But, I liked the old cardex system, could not disappear with a touch of the "Delete" button, as happens now

water sorted that tho in 74

i worked for annand and thompsom as a mechanic they were at 32 ross st newsted and yes they did have the plate fitted to the in side fire wall on 2 and 2a