Triumph collapsed as a company in 1983. John Bloor bought only the name and rebuilt it from scratch at Hinckley - the badge survived, the company did not.
Triumph, then a bicycle maker founded by Siegfried Bettmann, fitted a bought-in Belgian Minerva engine to a strengthened bicycle frame in 1902. Its own in-house engine f…
A year after Jack Sangster bought the struggling motorcycle business and formed Triumph Engineering Co. Ltd, chief designer Edward Turner's 498cc parallel twin outperfor…
Named in honour of Johnny Allen's 214.4mph 1956 land-speed run on a Triumph-powered streamliner at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, the twin-carburettor T120 went on sale f…
Triumph's advanced 750cc Trident triple was ready in prototype form by 1965 but delayed 18 months for a restyle. Weeks after its 1968 launch, Honda's CB750 arrived with…
The Meriden Workers' Co-operative, unable to compete once a strong pound priced its aging Bonneville out of the US market, collapsed. Property developer John Bloor bough…
Seven years after buying the name, Bloor's all-new factory at Hinckley unveiled six models built around modular 3- and 4-cylinder engines at the September 1990 Cologne s…
Triumph and Bajaj Auto announced a non-equity global alliance to co-develop and manufacture new mid-capacity motorcycles. Bajaj holds no equity in Triumph - it is a manu…
Triumph's first-ever sub-500cc motorcycles, co-developed with Bajaj Auto and built at Bajaj's Chakan plant, gave the brand an accessible entry point for the first time -…
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