Report - Great Britain - Cranes Garages Norwich

[Howard 18]

Just came across a thread on your forum regarding Cranes Garages Norwich. Can't find it now though.

To add to the discussion I was the Esso representaive for the site way back in 1973. Before most of you were born.

The garage was an Esso company owned site under the management of Roy Chadwick who lived in Cromer. I worked with Roy and Geoffrey on site development over a couple of years. In fact I offered them another site in Norfolk which they took up on a lease basis.

The other thing that I remember was that in the showroom was a full size model of Lady Penelope's car from the puppet series. I can't remember the name. There was no car franchise at that time. In fact the showroom was so small you could only get a couple of cars in it.

Hope I filled in a couple of blanks.

 

[westernsultan]

The puppet series was Thunderbirds Thunderbirds (TV series) - Wikipedia. FAB 1 was a pink Rolls Royce and several models of th ecar were produced such as Google Search

 

[Mikeymutt]

Do you mean the Cranes Skoda dealership at Marsham. Can't remember one in Norwich.

I did this one from Marsham.

Report - - Cranes Skoda of Marsham .Norfolk, February 2022 | Other Sites

An old Skoda dealership that sits just outside Norwich. It consists of some workshop bays and a small sales office. It sold fuel at the front supplied by Esso at the front. Reading on car forums that people were still going there in 2012 so think closure was not long after that. The owner was...

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