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Kingsway Motors' showroom. A polished pale stone floor reflecting four cars: a dark green and a silver classic grand tourer in front, and a silver and a black modern coupe behind. On the far wall, two stone arches with oak cart doors, and between them a brushed metal panel with plaques reading BRISTOL, JENSEN, ALVIS, DAIMLER and ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. Black track spotlights, charcoal walls, a full glass wall on the left onto the courtyard and its birches, a tool wall and workbench on the right, and two leather club chairs by a lamp.

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Kingsway Motors

4-car garage, drive-through. Modern glass showroom, east side.

The card

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Kingsway Motors

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The notes

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What it really is 4-car garage, drive-through
Front Modern glass showroom
Side East, number 7 of 19 walking the street clockwise from the north-west
Frontage 14 m
Floor area about 126 m², from the model

A modern premium showroom rather than a period front: frameless floor-to-ceiling glass with slim black edges and a backlit charcoal KINGSWAY MOTORS fascia set on the stone cornice. Above the glass, five brushed-metal plaques name defunct British marques in plain lettering: Bristol, Jensen, Alvis, Daimler and Armstrong Siddeley. The middle bay is the drive-through, straight out to the coach house's oak cart doors on the outside wall, and the only way a car reaches the courtyard. It runs the full depth of the wing.

The room behind it has its own page under behind the fronts: Kingsway Motors · the showroom, modern premium showroom.

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Kingsway Motors' showroom. A polished pale stone floor reflecting four cars: a dark green and a silver classic grand tourer in front, and a silver and a black modern coupe behind. On the far wall, two stone arches with oak cart doors, and between them a brushed metal panel with plaques reading BRISTOL, JENSEN, ALVIS, DAIMLER and ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. Black track spotlights, charcoal walls, a full glass wall on the left onto the courtyard and its birches, a tool wall and workbench on the right, and two leather club chairs by a lamp.
01 · Kingsway Motors' showroom
A frosty winter morning at Kingsway Motors. A long frameless glass showroom front under a backlit charcoal KINGSWAY MOTORS fascia, with five small brushed-metal plaques above the glass reading BRISTOL, JENSEN, ALVIS, DAIMLER and ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY. The middle bay is open, and a dark green modern coupe with its headlamps on rolls out over the frosted setts, with the oak cart doors of the coach house open behind it and low sun beyond. Classic cars on the polished floor either side, a MARKET ROW street plate, frosted birches and benches.
02 · A frosty winter morning at Kingsway Motors
The east side straight on from above the courtyard at golden hour. Northgate Stores, then the long glass front of Kingsway Motors with its five marque plaques and the open middle bay showing the arched cart door to the outside, with classic cars inside, then Ashworth Ironmongers with tools in the window. The Crown & Anchor and Hartley's Bakery have drifted onto the two corners, where Hartley's and Texas Homecare should be. The water bowl, benches and birches in the foreground.
03 · The east side straight on from above the courtyard at golden hour