Vintage Triumph Motorcycle

About Triumph
Triumph Engineering Co Ltd was a British motorcycle manufacturing company, based originally in Coventry. 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.

The company began in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann emigrated from Nuremberg, part of the German Empire, to Coventry in England. In 1884, aged 20, Bettmann initiated 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 with its own brand name. Bettmann also distributed sewing machines imported from Germany. In 1898, Triumph decided to extend its own production to include motorcycles and by 1902, the company had produced its first motorcycle – a bicycle fitted with a Belgian Minerva engine.

Photo by Kevin Borland. Text derived from Wikipedia.

Posted by Kevin Borland on 2011-04-18 01:41:42

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