Gordon's Motor Carriage Works
of Bolton
1879 Advertisement. Samuel Gordon, Coach Builder, Falcon Street, Higher Bridge Street, Bolton.[1]
1910 'Gordon's. One of those wide-awake firms which did not quietly submit to the process of being crushed out of the world of commerce, just because motoring made inroads to the older type of trade done by the coach builder, was the highly reputed Bolton concern of Gordons, in Bridge st. Falcon-etc., etc. When the evolution of traffic from horsey to horseless became palpable, the heads of this business went thoroughly into automobile affairs. They diverted part of their noted skill and their workshops to the production of bodywork of the same excellence they had put into coachwork for over 30 years. Also, they became agents for cars, and to-day have an excellent garage apart from their motor depot and coach shops in Falcon-st. Moreover, they have on hand large supplies of necessaries, and to-day theirs stands as one of the most completely equipped establishments Lancashire. Up to date in motoring, they yet retain their connexion for horse-propelled vehicular affairs. Mr. Sam Gordon, the head of the concern, can negotiate with buyers for various makes of cars. He has supplied Humbers and Daimlers, somo of the latter during the last year or so being fitted the much-discussed Silent Knight engine, with results eminently satisfactory. Mr. Gordon, in fact, has given special prominence to this noted engine, and some time ago had a fine sectional model of it public exhibition. Tyres and of noted makes are kept the premises, matter of course in a well-equipped business house. It is worth emphasizing that Messrs. Gordon occupy an uncommon position, in so far that they can make order any design of body fancied by a customer, who can buy a chassis wherever he likes, and then have superstructure built practically under his own supervision'[2]