Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,616 pages of information and 246,219 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

The AA

From Graces Guide
Exhibit at Beamish Museum.
Advertising sign.
Advertising sign.
November 1919
March 1924
May 1925.
August 1926.
November 1926.
June 1928.
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October 1937. 650,000 members.
October 1938. The Salute.
October 1951.
1953 BSA M21. Exhibit at World of Country Life
November 1955.
1959.
1948. DOT 125cc Motorcycle truck. Reg No. JLM 752. Exhibit at Exmoor Classic Cars
1948. DOT 125cc Motorcycle truck. Reg No. JLM 752. Exhibit at Exmoor Classic Cars
1948.
October 1952.
Reg No. PSJ 670. Exhibit at Exmoor Classic Cars
September 1954.
Oct 1956.
Exhibit at the Dover Transport Museum.
March 1960.
October 1960.
October 1962.
October 1964.
October 1966.
February 1968.
1970.
October 1973.

The Automobile Association simply referred as The AA - not to be confused with a company of the same name that pre-dates it.

of Fanum House, Whitcomb Street, London, WC2

of Fanum House, Basingstoke

1905 June. Formed by a break-away group from the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland including Charles Jarrott. The Secretary was Stenson Cooke; it borrowed an office in Fleet Street for its first base.

1906 Asked the liquidator of the Automobile Association if it could use that name. The liquidator sold the rights to the name for £100. The liquidators’ accounts, 9 May 1907, show a receipt of £100 from the Motor Users’ Proprietary, the company name used by the AA at the time. [1]

1910 Amalgamated with the Motor Union of Great Britain and Ireland as Automobile Association and Motor Union

By 1927 the organisation was just described as The Automobile Association

1933 Formed the Automobile Association (Aviation Department) to provide service, information and maps for members making aerial journeys and touring by air.[2]; the Secretary was Stenson Cooke; address Fanum House, New Coventry Street, London W.1. Telephone: Whitehall 1200.

By 1969 one of the services offered was the A.A. Securicor Radio Link-Line service for private cars[3]

1984 A new public telephone service based on cellular technology was announced[4], run by Racal and Millicom[5]. The network would be operated by the AA and Racal, using L. M. Ericsson's Vodafone method[6]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Mick Hamer, A Most Deliberate Swindle, RedDoor, 2017, pp. 258-59 and the National Archives, BT 34/1490/58240.
  2. 1933 Who's Who in British Aviation
  3. The Times Mar. 5, 1969
  4. The Times, May 22, 1984
  5. The Times, Oct 13, 1984
  6. The Times, Nov 21, 1984