John & Violet Parkinson took over the village garage at Hambleton in the 1950s after John had worked there for several years. They managed the forecourt and garage with just one mechanic. Their son Mike helped out in his spare time and joined the permanent staff in 1955. Jasmine House was built at the end of the garage in 1961 and John & violet moved there to be near their place of work. The garage did agricultural as well as cars etc and in the 1960s took on the Leyland Franchise. The Mini was brought out in the 1960s and helped with new car sales as it was very popular. Also in the 1960s compulsory testing of vehicles 3 years and over was introduced by the Ministry of Transport. Our staff had to go on a training course to enable them to test cars and the workshop had to comply with MOT regulations to obtain a license for a registered MOT site. The garage continued with Leland for a number of years into the 1970s, then in 1978 the Fiat franchise was taken on. Mike was then in sales and when his father retired, Mike and family moved to Jasmine House. Mike ran the business and car sales with Anne in the office. The business was successful and continued trading with new and used cars as well as repairs and MOTs along with fuel sales. In 11980 the petrol canopy was demolished by a lorry and collapsed onto the petrol pumps. After this a practical canopy was erected on the forecourt. Business was very good but towards the end of the 1980s Anne decided to leave and this brought about the decision to sell the business a very successful, thriving concern. It was sold to Gilders in 1987.