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The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg formed S. Bettmann & Co. and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them under his own trade name in London.
Triumph TR2, the first production car in the TR series. The Triumph TR range of cars was built between 1953 and 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. Changes from the TR2 to the TR6 were mostly evolutionary, with a change from a live axle to independent rear suspension in 1965 and a change from a four-cylinder engine to a six ...
The Triumph TR2 Coupé Francorchamps is a coupé version of the TR2 built in Belgium. Belgian car company Impéria Automobiles resumed production in the post-World War II era by assembling cars from other manufacturers under license. These included Adler and, beginning in 1949, Standard-Triumph, first with the Standard Vanguard, and
The Standard-Triumph company was eventually bought in 1960 by Leyland Motors which paid £20 million and the last Standard, an Ensign Deluxe, was produced in the UK in May 1963, when the final Vanguard models were replaced by the Triumph 2000 model. Triumph continued when Leyland became British Leyland Motor Corporation (later BL) in 1968. The ...
The Triumph 20TS was a prototype sports car shown by Standard-Triumph in October 1952 at the London Motor Show. Extensive development of the 20TS led to the introduction of the Triumph TR2 in March 1953 at the Geneva Motor Show, after which the 20TS was unofficially referred to as the Triumph TR1. Only one example of this car was ever made by ...
Triumph TR2, a sports car from the British Triumph Motor Company; a Tr2 2-10-0 steam locomotive (decapod) built in the USA, but operated in Finland; TR-2, a variant of the Grumman American AA-1; TR.2, a variant of the Hitachi TR.1; TR.2, see Orenda Engines; TR2, a postal district in the TR postcode area; TAS1R2, a taste receptor; Temple Run 2
Triumph TR8. The Triumph TR8 is a sports car built by the British Triumph Motor Company from 1978 until 1981. It is an eight-cylinder version of the "wedge-shaped" Triumph TR7 which was designed by Harris Mann and manufactured by British Leyland (BL), through its Jaguar/Rover/Triumph (JRT) division. The majority of TR8s were sold in the United ...
The 1800 Roadster, model number 18TR, [1] was designed in the closing days of World War II. [5] Triumph had been bought by the Standard Motor Company in 1944, [5] and the managing director of Standard, Sir John Black, wanted a sports car to take on Jaguar, which had used Standard engines in the pre-war period.