The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann and Moritz Schulte from Germany founded Bettmann & Co and started selling Triumph bicycles.

The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries.  In 1921 it started producing a car with a 1.4-litre engine type named the Triumph 10/20. The company was acquired by Leyland Motors in 1960, ultimately becoming part of the giant conglomerate British Leyland. The rights to the Triumph marque are currently owned by BMW, who purchased the Rover Group in 1994.

 

Headquarters Coventry, England

herald 13/60 convertible 1959-1971

The Triumph Herald is a small two-door car introduced by Standard-Triumph of Coventry in 1959 and made through to 1971. The body design was by the Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti, and the car was offered in saloon, convertible, coupé, estate and van models, with the latter marketed as the Triumph Courier.

Total Herald sales numbered well over half a million. The Triumph Vitesse, Spitfire and GT6 models are all based on modified Herald chassis and running gear with bolt-together bodies.

tr4  1961-1965

The Triumph TR4 is a sports car produced by the Triumph Motor Company from 1961 to 1965. As the successor to the TR3A, the car was based on the chassis and drivetrain of the previous TR sports cars, but with a modern body designed by Michelotti.

In spite of its modern styling, a total of only 40,253 cars were built during its 5-year production run.

The TR4 engine was continued from the earlier TR2/3 models, but the displacement was increased from 1991cc to 2138 cc.

tr5 1967-1968

The Triumph TR5 is a sports car built by the Triumph Motor Company in Coventry, England, between August 1967 and September 1968.

Visually similar to the Michelotti-designed TR4 roadster it was derived from, the TR5 replaced Triumph's 105 bhp SAE Standard inline-four engine with the much more powerful Lucas mechanical fuel-injected 150 bhp Triumph 2.5-litre straight-6.

Price pressures and tighter emissions standards in the U.S. resulted in a much less powerful carburetted version, the TR250, being sold on the North American market.

At the time, fuel injection was uncommon in road cars. Triumph claimed in their sales brochure that it was the "First British production sports car with petrol injection".

According to its UK sales brochure, the fuel-injected engine could propel the TR5 from 0–80 km/h in 6.5 seconds, reaching a top speed of 201 km/h. The TR5 engine was carried forward to the TR6.

The TR5 was produced in small numbers when compared with either the TR250 or the later TR6, with just 2947 units produced; the first car was assembled on 29 August 1967 and the last on 19 September 1968. Of these, 1161 were destined for the UK market, the remainder were left hand drive and were exported to France, Belgium and Germany amongst other countries. In the first quarter of 2011 there were approximately 410 licensed and 74 SORN TR5s registered with the DVLA.

The Triumph TR250 was built during the same period for the North American market. Price pressures and tighter emission regulations resulted in twin Zenith-Stromberg carburettors being fitted instead of the TR5's Lucas fuel injection system. Otherwise it is nearly identical.

The TR250's engine delivered 111 bhp, 39 bhp less than the TR5; 0–100 km/h acceleration took 11 seconds. The TR250 was also available with the Surrey Top system.

MKII 2000  1969-1977

The Triumph 2000 is a mid-sized, rear wheel drive automobile which was produced in Coventry by the Triumph Motor Company between 1963 and 1977. The 2000 used the six-cylinder engine first seen in the Standard Vanguard at the end of 1960.

Styled by Michelotti, the Triumph had a slightly longer wheelbase and was slightly wider, with a correspondingly more spacious interior, than its rivals.

Standard transmission on the original car was a 4-speed manual gearbox: overdrive and Borg-Warner Type 35 3-speed automatic transmission were options. The unitary body had independent suspension all-round with semi-trailing arms at the rear, all using coil springs. The servo-assisted brakes were disc at the front and drums at the rear.

In October 1969, the Mk 2 range was launched, styled, like its predecessor, by Michelotti, and preparing the car for the 1970s. The front of the car now followed the lines of the then-upcoming Triumph Stag grand tourer. There were entry-level 2000 models, which were the most plentiful, but the remainder of the range consisted of 2500, 2500 TC and 2500 PI models.

It competed with the contemporary Rover P6 2000, which initially was offered only with a four-cylinder engine. The Rover was also released in October 1963, just one week before the Triumph.

The Mk 2, the last big Triumph car, ceased production in 1977, supplanted by British Leyland's corporate executive car, the Rover SD1. Six-cylinder 2300 and 2600 versions of the new Rover would nonetheless be powered by engines designed by Triumph, originally intended to replace the older 2000 / 2500 units.

tr6  1968-1976

The Triumph TR6 (1968–76) is a sports car built by British Triumph Motor Company between 1969 and 1976. 

The TR6 was the best-seller of the TR range when production ended, a record subsequently surpassed by the TR7. Of the 91,850 TR6s produced, 83,480 were exported; only 8,370 were sold in the UK.

The frame, engine, running gear, body tub and doors were similar to the Michelotti-styled TR5 (TR250 in the US). The front and rear of the car was restyled by Karmann of Germany, though one source claims the new squared-off Kamm tail design was from an unrelated Michelotti prototype.

spitfire mk IV  1970-1974

The Triumph Spitfire is a British front-engined, rear-wheel drive, two-passenger convertible sports car manufactured between 1962-1980. Styled for Standard-Triumph in 1957 by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti, the Spitifire was manufactured for the duration of its production at the Standard-Triumph Canley works — and evolved over a series of five production iterations, with a approximately 315,000 manufactured over 18 years.

The Spitfire nameplate refers to the World War II fighter plane of the same name. Assembled at Canley in August 1980 shortly before the factory closed, the last Spitfire was an Inca Yellow UK-model including the factory hardtop and overdrive options. Never sold to the public, it remains on display at the British Motor Museum.

tr7  1974-1981

The Triumph TR7 is a sports car manufactured in the United Kingdom from September 1974 to October 1981 by British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), which changed its name to British Leyland (BL) in 1975.  It was initially produced at the Speke, Liverpool, factory,  moving to Canley, Coventry, in 1978 and then finally to the Rover Solihull plant in 1980. The car was launched in the United States in January 1975, with its UK home market debut in May 1976. The UK launch was delayed at least twice because of high demand for the vehicle in the US, with final sales of new TR7s continuing into 1982.

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