The Cooper Works, later The Traffic Police Garage In Surbiton

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Originally Posted by mab01UK

Note: The curved roof line in the scanned photo below confirms the inside photo in post above was also at Canada Rd, Byfleet and not Surbiton as first thought.

"Six of the best outside the Cooper establishment" from the book Mini by Rob Golding

I'm sure that's the Canada Road (Oyster Lane) premises. I was working there when we, (BMW Concessionaires GB Ltd), moved in to use it as a new car preparation centre for the Park Lane and Langley Motors sites operated under subsidiary company, BMW Distributors (London) Ltd. It was a good premises to work in and I can picture the inside very clearly, even though we're now 50 years on! At the far end, 2 large radial BMW radial engines lurked, awaited restoration.