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List Of Triumph Motorcycles
Motorcycles produced under the Triumph brand, by both the original company, Triumph Engineering Co Ltd, and its later incarnations, and the current Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. Triumph Engineering Co Ltd Known as the Meriden, West Midlands, UK era, 1902–1983. Pre-war Post-war Triples For full detail see BSA Rocket 3/Triumph Trident (for corresponding BSA models see BSA Triples) From 1985 to 1988 *Triumph Bonneville Triumph Motorcycles Limited Known as the Hinckley, Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ... era, 1990–. References {{Triumph motorcycles Hinckley * Triumph Triumph fr:Triumph (moto) it:Triumph nl:Triumph (motorfiets) ja:トライアンフ (二輪車) sv:Triumph (mc) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph Engineering Co Ltd
Triumph Engineering Co Ltd was a British motorcycle manufacturing company, based originally in Coventry and then in Meriden. A new company, Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, based in Hinckley, gained the name rights after the end of the company in the 1980s and is now one of the world's major motorcycle manufacturers. Origins The company was started by Siegfried Bettmann, who had emigrated from Nuremberg, part of the German Empire, to Coventry in England in 1883. In 1884, aged 20, Bettmann had founded his own company, the S. Bettmann & Co. Import Export Agency, in London. Bettmann's original products were bicycles, which the company bought and then sold under its own name. Bettmann also distributed sewing machines imported from Germany. In 1886, Bettmann sought a more specific name, and the company became known as the Triumph Cycle Company.Chadwick, Ian"Triumph Motorcycles timeline".Retrieved 31 December 2024. A year later, the company was registered as the New Triumph Co. Ltd, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph Bonneville
The Triumph Bonneville is a Types of motorcycles#Standard, standard motorcycle featuring a Straight-twin engine, parallel-twin four-stroke engine and manufactured in three generations over three separate production runs. The first two generations, by the defunct Triumph Engineering in Meriden, West Midlands, England, were 1959–1983 and 1985–1988. The third series, by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, Triumph Motorcycles in Hinckley, Leicestershire, began in 2001 and continues to the present as a completely new design that strongly resembles the original series. The name Bonneville derives from the famous Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA where Triumph and others attempted to break the Motorcycle land speed record, motorcycle speed records. Development history T120 Bonneville The original Triumph Bonneville was a 650 cc Straight-twin engine, parallel-twin motorcycle manufactured by Triumph Engineering and later by Norton Villiers Triumph between 1959 and 1974. It was based on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinckley
Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough, and is about halfway between Leicester and Coventry, close to Nuneaton and Watling Street, on the border with Warwickshire. The town is part of an urban area with the village of Burbage to the south. History In 2000, archaeologists from Northampton Archaeology discovered evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement on land near Coventry Road and Watling Street. Hinckley has a recorded history going back to Anglo-Saxon times; the name Hinckley is Anglo-Saxon: "Hinck" is a personal name and "ley" is a clearing in a wood. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hinckley was quite a large village, and it grew over the following 200 years into a small market town—a market was first recorded there in 1311. There is evidence of an Anglo-Saxon church – the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of BSA Motorcycles
BSA Sales Cataogues 1927 to 1935 This is a list of United Kingdom, British manufacturer Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) motorcycles from the 1930s until the end of the marque in the 1970s. The list is tabulated by engine type and period. V-twins B series The B-series were single cylinder models of 250 cc, 350 cc and 500 cc. After the Second World War only 350 cc and 500 cc overhead valve models were continued. M series In the 1930s the M series was a mixture of overhead valve and Flathead engine, side-valve models. During and after the Second World War only the side-valve models of this series were continued, typically for use by the armed forces or in sidecar combinations. Pre-unit C series The C-series were 250 cc single-cylinder models & a 350 cc side-valve model for 1940 only Bantam series All Bantams were single cylinder two-stroke machines Unit-construction singles Post-War twins All BSA Straight-twin engine, parall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSA Rocket 3/Triumph Trident
The Triumph Trident and BSA Rocket 3 was a technically advanced, high-performance Types of motorcycles#Roadster, roadster (or standard) motorcycle made by Triumph Engineering and BSA (both companies part of the Birmingham Small Arms Company) from 1968 to 1975, and sold under both the Triumph and BSA marques. Alongside the Honda CB750, and later the two-stroke Kawasaki triples, it brought a new level of sophistication to street motorcycles, marking the beginning of the superbike era. The Honda CB750 overshadowed the Trident to be remembered as the 'first superbike', in spite of the Triumph Trident actually debuting before the Honda by a few weeks. It had a , Air-cooled engine, air-cooled Overhead valve, OHV unit construction straight-three engine, with four gears and a conventional chassis and suspension. The engine had less vibration than the existing Straight-twin engine#Crank angle (360° and 180°), 360° twins. The Rocket 3/Trident was part of Triumph's plan to extend the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph Daytona 600
The Triumph Daytona 600 is a name given to two different motorcycles. The first model was sport bike manufactured in 1983 by Triumph Motorcycles out of their Meriden factory that was claimed to do over 100 miles per hour but fell within a lower insurance price bracket than the preceding 650cc Triumph TR65 Thunderbird in order to attract younger buyers. Although simply a shorter-stroked, twin-carburettored version of their earlier 650 cc Triumph TR65 Thunderbird but with an 8.5:1 compression ratio, it was exhibited as a new model for their 1983 range at the 1982 motorcycle show at the National Exhibition Centre. Unique for that year's home market models, it featured rear set foot rests and a plastic 'ducktail' rear end over the short chromed rear mudguard from the Triumph T140 TSX. Although, sporting a front disc brake, the model retained the drum rear brake of the TR65 Thunderbird. Two prototypes were made, one electric start version for the press and shows, the oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth II Of The United Kingdom
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch, the second-longest of any sovereign state, and the longest of any queen regnant in history. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TR65T Tiger Trail
The Triumph Tiger Trail was a motorcycle model manufactured by Triumph Motorcycles at the Meriden factory. The Tiger Trail was made from 1981 to 1982 in both 750 cc (TR7T) and 650 cc (TR65T) capacities, and under 180 examples were built. Emission regulations precluded export to the USA but otherwise the model was available to all Triumph's other markets particularly in many British Commonwealth nations and western Europe. History Triumph manufactured the Tiger Trail in response to their French importers', C.G.C.I.M., request for a large capacity dual purpose machine to compete with the BMW R80G/S model. The importers had visited Meriden with a prototype based around the Triumph Bonneville T140 which the factory judged too powerful. Instead, Meriden's director of engineering Brian Jones based the proposed model around the 750 cc TR7V Triumph Tiger with its single 30 mm Amal carburettor and electronic ignition by Lucas. Alterations included lowering the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph TR65 Thunderbird
The Triumph TR65 Thunderbird is a motorcycle made by the Triumph Engineering Co Ltd#The Meriden Motorcycle Co-operative, Triumph worker's co-operative at the Meriden, West Midlands, Meriden factory from 1981 to 1983. The TR65 was a reintroduction of the Triumph Thunderbird model name first used on the original 6T Thunderbird of 1949. A short stroke model, the Daytona 600 was designed in 1983 but not produced. Development The TR65 was a 650 cc Straight-twin engine, parallel twin with a Stroke (engine), short-stroke version of the 750 cc Triumph Bonneville, T140 Bonneville engine. This made the engine livelier with a better throttle response and with maximum torque produced at higher engine speeds. The TR65 also has a single 30 mm Amal (motorcycle), Amal carburettor and a mild cam. Aimed at the economy market, it was cheaper to insure than the T140 and could return . Costs were reduced by having a single silencer, using mechanical contact breaker points instead of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph T140 TSX
The Triumph TSX was a British motorcycle credited by the factory as being designed in 1981–1982 by Wayne Moulton, president of Triumph Motorcycles America(TMA), the factory's American arm.''Save The Triumph Bonneville ! The Inside Story Of The Meriden Workers' Co-Op''(Rosamond)Veloce 2009 This is the only instance of Triumph's signature twin cylinder models being designed by an American. Origins Brenda Price, Moulton's predecessor, had earlier persuaded Brian Jones (motorcycle designer), Brian Jones, Meriden's engineering director, to come up with a low rider-styled Triumph Bonneville for the USA market, her having observed their US dealers' success at independently marketing such models.''Triumph Bonneville :Portrait Of A Legend''(Duckworth/Mann) Haynes 2011 Jim Barclay of the factory designed a prototype low rider, the Phoenix, exhibited on the factory stand at the 1980 London Earls Court motorcycle show.Out Of The Ashes (Alison) ''Back Street Heroes'' (July 1985) This m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph T140W TSS
The T140W TSS was the last motorcycle model made by Triumph Engineering at their Meriden factory. Development history Designed to appeal to the US market, the TSS had an eight valve Weslake Engineering cylinder head developed by Triumph's Brian Jones from a 1978/9 design originally commissioned from Nourish Racing of Rutland''A Final Bid To Triumph'' Classic Bike (April 2012( following 1960s designs for the 650cc twins by the Rickman Brothers. The crank was a fully machined single forging with increased big end diameter making it much stiffer and better-balanced and producing one of the smoothest running motorcycles in the Triumph range. The head had smaller valves set at a steeper angle (30°). Recesses in the pistons allowed a 10:1 compression ratio. UK models had a pair of 34 mm Amal MkII carburetors while the export models had Bing constant velocity carburetors. Other changes from the standard T140E included offset connecting rods, steel-linered alloy barrels, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
