Triumph Motor Company is an English car manufacturer now disappeared (the motorcycle industry still exists, see section Triumph (motorcycle)). The house was founded in Coventry as a manufacturer of cycles by Moritz Schulte and Siegfried Bettmann in 1890. German citizens, they also opened a subsidiary in Nuremberg, which remained tied at home mother until 1929.
In 1902 Triumph began manufacturing motorcycles and only two years after acquiring the automaker Dawson in 1921 that were presented the first models of cars. This traditional, these models did not have the desired success. In 1925 Triumph introduced the first British car series equipped with Lockheed hydraulic brakes, the TCP of 1.9 liters of displacement. In 1933, the new leadership composed of Lt.-Col CV Holbrook, engineer Donald Healey and designer Walter Belgrove put into production at the Gloria Coventry Climax engines 4 and 6 cylinders. A range was developed: sedan, sports roadster versions, and two carburetors. But the automotive market in crisis-related crash of 1929, and despite the quality of its products more luxurious and innovative (cars equipped with washer, adjustable steering, headlight reverse, double circuit braking, automatic chassis lubrication ...), the manufacturer saw its sales fall inexorably. In 1936, Donald Healey conceived the Dolomite, an ambitious sports car inspired by the Alfa Romeo 8c 2300. With its supercharged engine, 8-cylinder dual overhead cam head 140 horsepower, its gearbox Preset Wilson and its 200km / h in peak she was entitled to equal the best sports cars of the interwar period. But the price of £ 1125 does not allow him to find his client. Increasingly distressed, Triumph had the same year to separate permanently from his motorcycle industry. This did not mark the end up in administration was monitored during 1939. W. Th Wards bought the company and during the war transformed the production facilities for military (aircraft carburetors and especially Mosquito fighter bombers licensed De Havilland).
At the end of hostilities, a victim of German bombing on Coventry Triumph was more than a name. In 1945 the brand was sold to Sir John Black, director of Standard Motor. Sir John wanted to compete with Jaguar (ex-Standard Swallow) to whom he sold engines since the thirties. Early models of Triumph postwar yet offered nothing revolutionary. The 1800 sedan a more classic style that razor edge (separate wings, trunk and upper body back) sold only 2,000 copies in three years. The 2000 roadster reconnected with some willingness to produce a sporty car, but its performance and bourgeois style straddles two eras not convinced that few customers. In 1949, for the sake of standardization, the Triumph models were equipped with engines and transmissions Standard. The following year, the sedan received the chassis of the Standard Vangard, she took the name of Renown. A new model to fund self-supporting (the first from Triumph) and particularly the style "island", the Mayflower, had more success on the UK market and has sold 32,000 copies in four years of production. His name was proof of the will of Sir John Black to break into the U.S. market.
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