FACT 1: Triumph came into existence way back in 1887 when German Siegfried Bettmann changed the name of his company to New Triumph Co. Ltd, and German engineer Mauritz Schulte convinced him to produce his own products.
FACT 2: Triumph’s first motorcycle was produced entirely in-house in 1905. It had a top speed of 45 mph.
FACT 3: Triumph sold 30,000 motorcycles to the Allied forces during the course of WW1 and 50,000 during WW2.
FACT 4: Doug Hele finalised the design of the Triple motor for Triumph in 1962. The triple motor (otherwise known as a straight-three engine) is a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, with three cylinders arranged side-by-side.
FACT 5:
In 1954, Marlon Brando rode a ’50 Thunderbird in the film The Wild One.
FACT 6: Norton Motorcycle Company was founded in 1898 as a manufacturer of “fittings and parts for the two-wheel trade”.
FACT 7: Norton has a long history of racing involvement and played a significant role in the development of post war car racing.
FACT 8: Café racers in the 1960s manufactured a hybrid machine called a Triton – Triumph twin engines in a Norton featherbed frame.
FACT 9: Norton’s Norton Commando motorcycle was awarded “Machine of the Year” for five successive years from 1968-1972.
FACT 10: Norton’s contribution to the WW2 effort led to almost 100,000 military Model 16h and Big4 side-valve motorcycles being produced.
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