Description:A Stanhope Gig made in 1902 by Richardson & Son of Uttoxeter for export to Mr C. Tambisi of the Bank of Africa, Lagos, in what is now Nigeria. The certificate in the foreground is for the Silver Medal award at the Staffordshire County Show held at Uttoxeter in August 1902. This photograph was taken outside Richardson's works at Heath Road, Uttoxeter.
The business was started by George Richardson, a wheelwright in Bradley Street, when he opened coachbuilding premises at Park Street in the 1840s. The company built a variety of horse drawn vehicles. By 1907 the business began to repair motor vehicles and sell bicycles and by the 1950s was doing very little wheelwrighting or coachbuilding. George's great-grandson sold the business, by then a motor garage, in 1962.