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Victor Motors

Victor Motor Co Ltd was a Ford dealer at 52 South Terrace in years around 1951. It was in the building which was built as the King's Theatre, and is now the Metropolis Nightclub. Victor Gubgub purchased it in 1945 by for his Ford showroom, as seen below.

Photo from a contributor to Roel Looper's blog, 30 August 2022.

There is a 'ghost sign' in Henderson Street, visible in August 2022. This would have been a rear entrance to the building.

File:Freotopia commerce img victormotors1.jpg

References and Links

Cox, Nicole 2012, 'Metropolis Fremantle building up for grabs for first time in seven decades', realcommercial.com.

Darbyshire, Jo 2022, 'Victor Gubgub', streetsoffreo.


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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 22 February, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/commerce/victor.html (it was last updated on 11 December, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.