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Sir John Black birthday celebrations at The British Motor Museum

10th February 2022

Standard and Triumph enthusiasts gathered with their cars today, 10th February 2022, at The British Motor Museum, in honour of Sir John Black... Today the British Motor Museum hosted around 50 Triumphs and Standards which turned up as part of the ‘Drive your Triumph Day’. The Museum displayed both the last Stag and the last TR7 (from their collection) outside the Museum for Triumph … [Read more...]

Book review – Triumph Cars – The Complete Story (New Third Edition)

19th January 2019

Reviewed by Kieron Fennelly Title: Triumph Cars – The Complete Story (New Third Edition) Author: Graham Robson/Richard M Langworth Published by: Veloce; Veloce.co.uk 256 pages; hardback Price: £40 UK; $65US ISBN: 978-1-787112-89-6 The Triumph story, as this book shows, goes back as far as the nineteenth century and bicycles, later succeeded by the motorcycles for which the … [Read more...]

Michelotti (and the Triumph Stag) – ‘A free pencil…’

4th December 2015

2015 marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of the Triumph Stag. Dave Moss looks back at the car and its talented instigator, Giovanni Michelotti... In 1968, the Triumph Stag - and various other shadowy prototypes - were oddball survivors in the new BLMC stable. At the time marque plans were being fiercely guarded and nurtured by previously-independent operations then recently joined in an … [Read more...]

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