The spirit of Coventry Spain All posts by this member | 1 of 92 Fri 25th Nov 2011 9:09pm Member: Joined Feb 2011 Total posts:81 So I was having a butchers on the internet and found another site about Coventry and Meriden Triumph factory, the page is in a foreign language. There are some pics on there you might not have seen before, they take you through the history of the motorbikes they have produced.
http://www.fedrotriple.it/factory.html |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 2 of 92 Sat 26th Nov 2011 3:19pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 Interesting site. I have been in the Hinckley factory, pre-2002. I don't like the look of the large UXB in one of the 1940 pics! ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 92 Fri 2nd Dec 2011 1:31am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2869 As a sideline to this thread stumbled on this tonight. An amazing '57 Triumph TRW never been out of its crate and assembled since being packed off to Canada from the factory.
Amazing find - $37,000 dollars to you sir! (that's over £23k!)
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The spirit of Coventry Spain All posts by this member Thread starter | 4 of 92 Fri 2nd Dec 2011 2:33am Member: Joined Feb 2011 Total posts:81 BLIMEY!! Now that is very nice indeedy! It must have been kept somewhere quite damp free to look like that after all this time.
Top marks for finding this one!! |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 5 of 92 Wed 8th Feb 2012 1:30pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2869 Reviving this after finding this on t'interweb:
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Kimbo Leicestershire All posts by this member | 6 of 92 Mon 13th Feb 2012 12:39pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:80 VERY sad sight.
I bought one of the first batch of T140V (left foot change/rear disc/UK tank) Bonnies that were built there after the opening of the 'Co-op', from Albany Motorcycles.
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 7 of 92 Mon 13th Feb 2012 4:52pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 Slightly veering off from the main topic but relevant to both Triumph and Coventry here are two photo's of the Coventry LMS goods yard.
I have a passion for both Railways and Triumphs (esp my Tiger 100 ![]() ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'. |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 92 Tue 14th Feb 2012 5:05am Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2869 Great shots Catshed. Must be time I posted this again:
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 9 of 92 Tue 14th Feb 2012 1:47pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Many tanks for these Catshed, not seen them anywhere before ![]() ![]() |
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 10 of 92 Tue 14th Feb 2012 2:47pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 Hello Dutchman,
Funnily enough these photos used to hang in 'The Old Dyers Arms' where the Antelope now meet.When the landlady Mavis? left and Pete Reeve took over many years ago he lent us the originals and we had them scanned, I'm not sure if they still hang up in the bar but there used to be others of this area (Spon End /Old Chap), also another place that had lots of images was 'Stantons' the barbers on AOR, when the old boy was ill one day I had to go into the women's bit on the left hand side of the shop to get my hair cut and there was a wall covered in local images from years ago, I've always wondered what happened to them.
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 11 of 92 Wed 15th Feb 2012 2:19pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 Found this image from the 1956 Triumph Catalogue (French Dealer) showing Broadgate. ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 12 of 92 Wed 15th Feb 2012 2:46pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 Great picture, thanks! ![]() |
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herberts lad Exhall All posts by this member | 14 of 92 Fri 24th May 2013 11:43am Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:78 Here is my Triumph 3TA , reunited with the road again this week after spending 27 lonely years in boxes and wrapping. A testament to the men at Meriden who first made her in 1963. Just waiting for the weather to improve before road testing.
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 15 of 92 Mon 10th Jun 2013 12:43pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 Nice to see another Triumph on the road 'Herberts Lad'
I had several 3TA's,T90's,T100's, I like what they called the 'C' range unit construction, alas I only have 2 now, a 1964 T100ss and a 1969 T100c that I'm building up.
Here is the 64 Tiger 100ss outside what would have been the original Triumph factory,
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