Tilleys Motor Engineers occupied an imposing building in Victoria Street, built in 1907. They also had premises in South Street and Trinity Street in Dorchester and a motorcycle dealership in Frederick Place Weymouth along with a showroom in the 1950s and 1960s at 60 St Thomas Street Weymouth.
In the 1950s they were the main dealers for Austin, Rover, Standard and Triumph and the writer when a small boy in the 1950s would look with envy on a shiny new Rover 75 in the window.
This photo dating from the late 1930s shows two new Standards, an Austin 10 and a further Austin to the right of the picture.
In 1968 the Tilleys retired and .the business was sold to Wadham Stringer.
They had a very good reputation as a reliable firm selling good cars.
