Shell - Luxicars, 265-279 Iffley Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3AA circa 1962
Here the last days of this iteration of the Luxicars premises was captured. Soon the entire site would be demolished and a totally new expanded garage and showroom would be built. It's hard to imagine this photo was taken any earlier than 1960, yet by 1964 the building work was complete, so the two images are not far apart in time despite looking so different - see below.
I don't know when Luxicars stopped trading but certainly by the earliest Streetview this was by then a Volkswagen dealer called Ridgeway, and the building had by then been expanded and visually improved from the awful prefabricated concrete disaster that the original new premises had been. By 2015 the premises were unoccupied and by 2018 it was on the verge of being demolished, this time for good!
If some of the cars on view here are very old, the right hand pump with the Shellmex globe is ancient! It must date from the pre-war era by a few years at least.
Shell - Luxicars, 265-279 Iffley Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 3AA circa 1962
Here the last days of this iteration of the Luxicars premises was captured. Soon the entire site would be demolished and a totally new expanded garage and showroom would be built. It's hard to imagine this photo was taken any earlier than 1960, yet by 1964 the building work was complete, so the two images are not far apart in time despite looking so different - see below.
I don't know when Luxicars stopped trading but certainly by the earliest Streetview this was by then a Volkswagen dealer called Ridgeway, and the building had by then been expanded and visually improved from the awful prefabricated concrete disaster that the original new premises had been. By 2015 the premises were unoccupied and by 2018 it was on the verge of being demolished, this time for good!
If some of the cars on view here are very old, the right hand pump with the Shellmex globe is ancient! It must date from the pre-war era by a few years at least.