This is Triumph [video]

Another good find.

Seen outside Morrison's this evening, a 1952 Triumph Renown Limousine. It has a glass partition between the driver and passenger compartment.


There must be a Triumph meeting in town because seen earlier outside B&Q, a Triumph 2000. It has a huge teddy bear in the back seat!

I think that 2000 is a daily runner, I often see it about.

I haven't seen that 2000 before but I have seen a TR sports car parked in exactly the same spot so possibly the same owner?

It was a Vitesse last night in the exact same spot outside B&Q, another 'daily driver'. The owner must be trading one Triumph model for another when he gets bored with them?

There was a well-preserved Dolomite Sprint in yesterday's Telegraph:

I still have a scar on my left hand where I caught it closing the boot on a Dolly Sprint. That chrome edge strip was bl**dy sharp.

REBBONK HI

Caption, need a bigger hammer happened at Leyland Canley a few times, when cars were built wrong because of error -time, they stood on the car park as "Foreigners"".

The moving track. The shell/Body was dropped from the floor above, each workman was given a time to fit the part into the car as it came along the line, at the end of the track it drove off the end off the track a fully fledged car except for paint and testing.

But all cars did not take the same time to fit parts so you had to have no two Spitfires following each other, no two left handed cars no two overdrive etc, there were many reasons, if there were a mistake, then the second had little time and in came the big hammer effect. the car shells on the floor above were from a different factory they were hoisted up to the second floor and placed on "skids" these were electrical, moved about by a giant electrical panel, a central skid track led from one end to the other, off this were parking bays of six car bodies, any one could de brought from those bays on to the main line that led to the dropping hoist controlled by a giant electrical panel. Four men placed the body shells in order to be dropped, a two typist wrote out the order and sent out to all the stores, so parts met the body shells, the typist only had to miss out the letter 'O' and the wrong parts went to the shell, or the panel man had only to place the wrong shell out of place and you had a "foreigner". For five years I worked on that panel.