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Post by stevevw on Sept 29, 2016 8:18:07 GMT
Do any of you have a picture of the Potters Bar factory? I have been unable to find a unit number for our DF4.5 ride this weekend. Will be a bit of an anticlimax if we can not actually visit the correct factory.
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Post by cusqueno on Sept 29, 2016 11:56:01 GMT
Do any of you have a picture of the Potters Bar factory? I have been unable to find a unit number for our DF4.5 ride this weekend. Will be a bit of an anticlimax if we can not actually visit the correct factory. Searching the www for images of the Trusty or Viscount Factory Potters Bar has found nothing identified as such. As you probably know the Post Code on later Viscount literature, EN6 3JS, is no longer in use. Searching on that results in the suggestion that the nearest building to the location of the defunct post code is 120 Cranborne Road, which is a private house that looks older than the 1970s. Opposite the house there is a factory-type building that looks about the right vintage. See Google Street View: www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7038378,-0.203252,3a,75y,123.8h,89.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSjXlsggRzCErXhZUcjV9Xg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 This is the home of TSG Building Services plc, a company that was apparently founded in 1961; but the company history on the website does not, as far as I can see, say if the firm has always been in that building. There are some other factory-like buildings along Cranborne Road, some of which look old enough, but that is moving away from the place that the search indicates as the nearest location to the old post code. There might be someone about we could ask, but I expect the factories will be shut on Sunday. |
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Post by cliffwilkins on Nov 23, 2017 19:03:29 GMT
Potters Bar factory was in cranbourne road
Early days it was Trusty them became Trusty Viscount.
Ever kind of bike was made there from kids bikes including the Trusty Tracker the Raleigh Chopper equal.
Later years they concentrated on high end racing bikes some in the lightweight moly chrome and lugged and super smooth braze welded which took some experienced welders to make the top end frames.
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