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This category is for engines made by the British Triumph Motor Company. Pages in category "Triumph Motor Company engines" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
The "Slippery Sam" name was acquired during the 1970 Bol d'Or, a 24-hour race for production-based machines held in France, when engine difficulties and escaping oil covered the bike of Triumph employee Percy Tait and co-rider Steve Jolly who managed to finish in fifth place to winners Paul Smart and Tom Dickie on another works Trident.
The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg formed S. Bettmann & Co. and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them under his own trade name in London.
Triumph approved the project, and provided a budget of $25,000. The car, christened the TR-250K, was based on a standard Triumph independent rear suspension chassis, but with a tubular structure added to support the alloy bodywork. Kastner moved the 2.5 L six-cylinder engine back 9.5 in (241 mm) in the chassis.
Since 1933 the AMA had limited engines for Class C racing to 500 cc ohv engines and 750 cc side-valve engines. This had suited Harley Davidson well with their side-valve 750cc K-series V-twins. The AMA raised the limit for ohv engines to 750 cc for 1969 in the flat track class.
The Triumph Sabrina engine is an internal combustion engine for automotive applications developed by the Triumph Motor Company division of the Standard Motor Company in England in the late 1950s. It powered Triumph's Le Mans team entries in 1959, 1960, and 1961, and was considered for use in a production road car.
Having started his own performance parts business early in 1976, Hyde used his engineering experience to design his bikes, and in 1987 he introduced the Hyde Harrier, a café racer kit for Bonneville and Trident engines using a frame developed with Harris Performance in Hertfordshire. This was followed up in 1995 by the Hornet, a 126-mph single ...
In the mid-1950s he produced and campaigned his own brand of racing motorcycle known as the "Geoff Monty Special" (GMS), based on his own design of semi-spine frame with rectangular-section swinging-arm and a 350 cc BSA Gold Star engine having modified internals to achieve a capacity slightly under 250 cc. [6]