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Siegfried Bettmann founded Triumph in London in 1885 to sell bicycles. Motorcycles followed in 1902 and the first cars in 1923. The company was based in Coventry. Standard bought it in 1945. It then joined British Leyland and the car brand vanished in 1984.
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Triumph
1965–1970 · Inline-4
Leyland's first front-wheel-drive design. Michelotti drew its body. Its steering column moved not only up and down but back and forth too. On the dashboard the warning lights were arranged like a pie chart.
Photo: en:User:Parknest (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Triumph
1970–1976 · Inline-4
In 1973 Triumph did something unusual: the revised 1500TC switched from front- to rear-wheel drive. The 1500 of 1970 had kept the front-wheel drive of the Triumph 1300, with a new twin-headlight nose and a longer tail with a bigger boot. 66,353 front-drive and 25,549 rear-drive cars were built before the Dolomite took over in 1976.
Photo: Charles01 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Triumph
1963–1979 · Inline-6
Just one week separated the Triumph 2000 from its great rival, the Rover P6 2000: it was launched on 15 October 1963. Giovanni Michelotti styled it, and it was the last big Triumph, replaced by the Rover SD1 in 1977. The last one built, a 2500S estate, is kept at the Heritage Motor Centre.
Photo: Paul Brown (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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