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Crediton Motor Works

From Graces Guide

of Crediton, Devon

See T. Holloway, Henry John Cornish and Hugh Blaine

1915 Granted licence to sell petrol.[1]

1915 Proprietor of the Crediton Motor Works to erect a sign overhanging the footpath outside his premises, advertising motor spirit.[2]

1917 'THE CREDITON MOTOR WORKS beg to announce that they are extending their premises, having taken over the spacious buildings of the late Steam Laundry, which will be fitted up with suitable plant of machinery enable them to undertake all automobile agriculture repairs, including the assembling of the famous "Ford" Converted Farm Tractors.'[3]

1935 Crediton Motor Works, (Henry John Cornish, Proprietor), motor engineers, repairers and motor car agents, Union Road.[4]

1944 Crediton Motor Works (H. J. Cornish) Motor Car Experts, Engineers.[5]

1948 Death of owner Henry John Cornish


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Sources of Information

  1. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 28 July 1915
  2. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 01 December 1915
  3. Western Times - Friday 24 August 1917
  4. 1935 Kelly's Directory of Devonshire
  5. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 06 April 1944