By CASEY NEILL
PATTERSON Cheney is this year celebrating 100 years since its birth in Flinders Street, Melbourne.
The car and truck dealership has been a Dandenong fixture for more than three decades.
It all started when Mr S.A. Cheney became an assembler of US vehicles in 1915.
Bill Patterson bought into the business in 1972 and it’s been known as Patterson Cheney ever since. The Bertalli family now owns the company and employs about 170 people at its Cheltenham Road head office in Dandenong.
The company’s Dandenong operations were originally in Lonsdale Street and a truck dealership was just behind the post office. These combined in 1983 on the current site.
It last year celebrated 30 years in Dandenong and picked up two awards along the way – the Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce 2013 Premier Regional Business Award and Retail Award.
