RefNoPDR
TitlePickford Deighton and Company, Motor Dealers and Engineers, Sheffield
AdminHistoryE. H. Pickford and Co. Ltd, motor dealers and engineers, was founded by Ernest Hardy Pickford, a member of Pickford Trown and Co., motor engineers of the Crescent Works, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield.

The Deighton Motor Company Ltd was established in 1932 as commercial vehicle and private car dealers and engineers at Old Hall Road, Sheffield.

J. W. Flear and company Ltd., coach builders and repairers of Burton Road, Sheffield was established in 1914.

All the above companies became part of the Thos. W. Ward Group of companies and were part of the Skipper Group of companies, within Thos. W. Ward Ltd.
DescriptionThis collection comprises:

E. H. Pickford and Co. Ltd, 1910 - 1971 (PDR/1)
Deighton Motor Co. Ltd, 1932 - 1969 (PDR/2)
J. W. Flear and Company Ltd, 1914 - 1959 (PDR/3)
Comet Finance Company Ltd, 1959 - 1965 (PDR/4)
Pickford Deighton and Co. Ltd, 1982 - 1983 (PDR/5)
Miscellaneous Photographs, 1958 (PDR/6)
Date1910 - 1983
Extent29 items
AccessStatusOpen
LevelCollection
RelatedMaterialStatutory books; accounts etc., of Pickford Deighton and Company, Motor Dealers and Engineers, Sheffield, 1960 - c. 1979 (MD7868)

See also Thos. W. Ward Records refs. TW 213, TW 249-255; TW 285-286; TW 414-415.
AcquisitionSourceThese records are believed to have been transferred to Sheffield Archives in the mid/late 1980s but no trace of an accession record has been found, consequently they were given a new accession number in June 2012
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