Talk:Triumph Motor Company
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[edit] Triumph Scorpion
I think the "Triumph 12-6 Scorpion" should perhaps be "12/16" (ie the 1932 1203cc model)? Tartanperil 08:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- In "A-Z of Cars of the 1930s" it is definitely called a 12-6 Scorpion. I assume the 6 was for its 6 cylinder engine. The book's author, the late Michael Sedgwick, is not very polite about it describing it as "a runabout for madame". Malcolma 11:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Triumph TR10
It would be nice to include the TR10, a station wagon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KitchM (talk • contribs) 06:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
This was the US model name for the Standard Ten Companion. RGCorris (talk) 09:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Griffin or Wyvern ?
The Standard Car Review (the official company magazine) of January 1947 states that the new badge is a highly-stylised Griffin. The recent edit claiming that it is a Wyvern is unreferenced; it also suggests that the Wyvern was the badge of Mercia and that Coventry was the capital of Mercia. Wikipedia's article on Mercia makes it clear that the Wyvern was the badge of Leicester and had no historic links to the ancient Kingdom of Mercia. In any case, Coventry was not the capital of Mercia - if there was a capital in the modern sense it was Tamworth. Vauxhall also used a Griffin-based badge, of a completely different design; at one time the Vauxhall management were under the erroneous impression that their badge was a Wyvern and named a model after it. RGCorris (talk) 10:06, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Continental
Where does the Triumph Continental fit in the model chart? In 1937, Swiss Triumph importer J. Hauser, Zurich, displayed a 2-Litre Continental with DHC coachwork by Hermann Graber on its stand at the Geneva Automobile Salon (which provided this information on their HP). The car had a 6 cylinder, 1991 cc engine delivering 70 HP. Further, I found this picture of a car that I believe is a Triumph Continental, too:
--Chief tin cloud (talk) 19:35, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- This name was used in 1937 for the Dolomite bodyshell with a Vitesse-type radiator grille, for those who did not like the waterfall grille that the Dolomite normally wore. According to Langworth & Robson the only survivor of this model was registered CON 200 and was in Canada in the late 1970s when they wrote their book "Triumph Cars - the complete 75-year history". The name had also been used for a one-off sports saloon in 1936. RGCorris (talk) 22:02, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
