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IV
GILLESPIES OLDEST DEALERS IN CHRYSLER
CARS IN CANADA; PLYMOUTH IS ADDED TO LINE
Examiner,
26 November 1932
[Gillespie's
Garage has added the low-price Plymouth to its line. The firm was
founded in1917 by G.A. Gillespie, of the local branch of Silverwood
Dairies. It was located in one of the city's oldest brick buildings.
Formerly, home to the Baptists, the Salvation Army and the Christian
Scientists, the building had been about 35 feet by 50 feet, with a small
wing at the rear. Except for adding show windows at the front, the
building remained largely unaltered until the rear wing was removed, and
a larger service department was built, in 1924, and enlarged in1926 to
6000 square feet. In 1929, the church was torn down to build a new
showroom. The new two-storey fireproof steel and brick building was
extended north ward in 1932 after the purchase of the old double house
owned by the late Thomas B. McGrath.
Gillespie's
sold Maxwells until 1925, and then Chryslers. It sold Studebakers and
Chalmers cars at times between 1917 and 1921. The first Chryslers in
Peterborough were sold to J.I. Allen and Theo. McWilliams.]
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