Eustace Watkins
Small impression of E.W. garage(s) and showroom(s) , scanned from old magazines,
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These days is for a lot of people Eustace Watkins is only known as just a name for special types of bodywork for cars mostl Wolseley's and some Riley's
But this company was also known the main London distributor of Wolseleys for more than 50 years.
With the Japanese car invasion in the seventies, a lot of old faithful garages had the choice to change with the new times or getting out of business.
The great motoring historian Michael Worthing Williams describe this period as the throw away seventies.
This was also the case with Eustace Watkins, when they went out of business in the mid seventies.
To clean the premises all administration and documentation collected all over the years found their way into the trash container(s).
This is the main reason why it is so hard to find these days any historic documentation about Eustace Watkins
If you can add any pictures or stories about the company, this will be grateful accepted.
Hope you got a small impression about this company, and the historic motoring grounds
12 Berkeley street in the year 1949
12 Chelsea Manorstreet
Visit to the historic grounds (2008)
12 Chelsea Manor St corner on the left Chelsea Manor Gardens
Right Chelsea Manor Gardens corner left Chelsea Manor St
the temporary storage of the cars in stock hall (see the red arrows) are still in existence.
This back part of the site was nicknamed by the former Eustace Watkins employees as “The Catacombs”
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