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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

This was the US model name for the Standard Ten Companion. RGCorris (talk) 09:08, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Components - I see your car is using my car's gearbox!!

Some young motoring scribes imagine that items such as gearboxes are made by for example by Triumph (and not by a business that makes gearboxes) and so, for example, if a Ford Prefect used the same battery as a Cadillac they would write in their subsequent "knowledgeable" Veloce commentary that the Ford Prefect battery was a straight rip-off of a Cadillac battery and could be replaced with a standard Cadillac battery. See what I mean? To be accurate they should say that Ford Prefect and Cadillac bought their batteries at the same shop. So the note just replaced in the text fits with Wikipedia rules etc it just happens to be very misleading - simply, cruft from a poor source. Eddaido (talk) 03:43, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a source stating that Daimler and Triumph bought their gearboxes from the same supplier like Ferrari and Lamborghini Trattori did in the early 1960s, or that one company sold gearboxes to the other? Not every company bought their transmissions from ZF or Borg-Warner. Смерть Интернет тролли! Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 04:17, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The postwar gearbox, as originally designed for the Vanguard, but in use in many models for more than thirty years, was one of Standard's unsung profit makers. Made in three-speed, four-speed, with or without overdrive, with a column change or central change, it was an amazingly versatile 'building block.'" - Robson, Graham (May 2011). The Book of the Standard Motor Company. Poundbury, Dorchester, UK: Veloce Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-845843-43-4. Retrieved 19 October 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

This does not say that Daimler didn't simply buy transmissions from Standard (which owned Triumph), but the two sources given in the article suggest that they reverse-engineered the Standard box instead. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 16:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The name of the business

This business used the name Triumph Motor Company Limited for their motor car business at least from early 1923. This is contrary to the statement within the article. Eddaido (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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