Sir John Black and Standard Triumph

As some of you may have noticed this is a repost by Rebbonk of an article from last February which I accidentally deleted along with all the responses to it when moving it from "local history" to "local industry"

The original thread together with all the responses to it can still be found here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F4xbOYL10CMJ:icserver.no-ip.biz/icCoventry/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D8%26t%3D2566%26start%3D0+%22coventry+message+board%22+standard+triumph&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk