{"id":6121,"date":"2022-07-28T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cakestand.online\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2022-07-31T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:47:07","slug":"golden-anniversary-bourne-road-garage-celebrates-half-a-century-as-a-mazda-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cakestand.online\/golden-anniversary-bourne-road-garage-celebrates-half-a-century-as-a-mazda-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden anniversary: Bourne Road Garage celebrates half a century as a Mazda dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Mazda\u2019s story in the UK started on a relatively small scale with the brand launching at the 1969 British Motorshow but it was not until 1972 that sales started in earnest. Today, very few dealers are able to claim they were part of Mazda\u2019s story in the UK from the start, but Bourne Road Mazda in Crayford, Kent<\/strong> has been part of the Mazda dealer network since the very beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Celebrating their 50th Anniversary<\/strong> as a Mazda franchise, Bourne Road Garage started selling Mazda cars in 1972 from the very same site they occupy today. However, the story of this still family owned business pre-dates Mazda with Edwin Henry Braddon, grandfather of present owner Peter, buying the site on Bourne Road in Crayford on the 1st<\/sup> April 1938 for his haulage and engineering business. By the 1960s the operation had moved to car retailing, workshop and fuel station, and after a brief flirtation with selling Ford and Datsun products, became a Mazda dealer in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n