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. . . . was employed by Mulliners and worked on Triumphs.
<span style="font-style: italic">My mum's dad came from the motor industry and, far from being a car-cleaning addict, was pretty much teetotal in that respect. He would stand on our drive, watching our neighbour cleaning his Vauxhall Viva for the second time that week and tell him that he would rot the sills out if he kept at it like that. Sure enough, a few months later, that same neighbour was to be found on his hands and knees, scraping away the rusted remains of his Viva's sills before welding new ones in place. I spoke to my mother and got the dates of Grandad's employment at Mulliners, so that I could work out the cars to search for. He was there from the late Twenties through to the Fifties. My uncle could remember him talking about the cars he was building. They were the Standard Eight saloon and the Triumph Mayflower. Possibly the ugliest, most underpowered things ever to wear a car badge. It turned out that he had been working at the Birmingham coach-builders named Mulliner, and it was at the London company of the same name that worked on Rollers and Bentleys. I did some more research. It seems that at one time, the world was pretty much filled with coach-building Mulliners. They can all be traced back to a Northamptonshire family of Mulliners who first made bodies for the Royal Mail coaches in the 1790s. From there, a branch was founded in Liverpool and another in Birmingham. The Northampton and Liverpool Mulliners got together and formed a factory in London. It was this factory that was bought by Rolls in 1959 to create an alliance that has since become legendary for producing some of the most beautiful, expensive and glamorous cars the world has ever seen. Meanwhile, the Birmingham Mulliners were busy turning out canvas-bodied Austins and then Standards and Triumphs until, during the war, they made troop carriers and gliders. In a moment of unforgivable snobbery, I turned from the idea in disgust. </span>
<span style="font-style: italic">My mum's dad came from the motor industry and, far from being a car-cleaning addict, was pretty much teetotal in that respect. He would stand on our drive, watching our neighbour cleaning his Vauxhall Viva for the second time that week and tell him that he would rot the sills out if he kept at it like that. Sure enough, a few months later, that same neighbour was to be found on his hands and knees, scraping away the rusted remains of his Viva's sills before welding new ones in place. I spoke to my mother and got the dates of Grandad's employment at Mulliners, so that I could work out the cars to search for. He was there from the late Twenties through to the Fifties. My uncle could remember him talking about the cars he was building. They were the Standard Eight saloon and the Triumph Mayflower. Possibly the ugliest, most underpowered things ever to wear a car badge. It turned out that he had been working at the Birmingham coach-builders named Mulliner, and it was at the London company of the same name that worked on Rollers and Bentleys. I did some more research. It seems that at one time, the world was pretty much filled with coach-building Mulliners. They can all be traced back to a Northamptonshire family of Mulliners who first made bodies for the Royal Mail coaches in the 1790s. From there, a branch was founded in Liverpool and another in Birmingham. The Northampton and Liverpool Mulliners got together and formed a factory in London. It was this factory that was bought by Rolls in 1959 to create an alliance that has since become legendary for producing some of the most beautiful, expensive and glamorous cars the world has ever seen. Meanwhile, the Birmingham Mulliners were busy turning out canvas-bodied Austins and then Standards and Triumphs until, during the war, they made troop carriers and gliders. In a moment of unforgivable snobbery, I turned from the idea in disgust. </span>
