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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Triumph
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Coventry-based firm which manufactured *motorcycles from 1902 and was one of the best-known names in the industry from the 1920s to the 1960s. It went bankrupt in 1983 but the name was bought by John Bloor, who began manufacture at Hinckley in Leicestershire. The first six new Triumph models went on sale in 1991, and three years later sales were sufficiently buoyant to justify a second Leicestershire factory. The original Coventry firm began making cars in 1923 and this part of the business collapsed in 1939. After the war the name was revived by the Standard Motor Company, which soon had a great success with two series – the TR sports cars, beginning with the TR2 in 1953, and the Triumph Herald, introduced in 1959. Standard-Triumph was taken over by Leyland Motors in 1961 and became in 1968 a part of British Leyland.
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