141 Triumph 500cc ST Speed Twin (1938) DDU 988
Triumph 500cc ST Speed Twin (1938) Engine 493cc Vertical Twin
Registration Number DDU 988 (Coventry)
TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLE ALBUM
Launched at the 1937 London Motorcycle Show, with an Edward Turner designed Vee Twin, earlier vertical twins had suffered from excess bulk, Turner's was lighter and narrower across the crankcase than the contemporary single-cylinder Tiger 90, whose cycle parts it shared, and it proved a design that would lift Triumph out of its economic doldrums.
With an overall weight of 355 lbs (dry) and an engine output of 26bhp the road going version returned a top speed of 85 mph for the Speed Twin with 100mph attainable from the Tiger 100
TRIUMPH Motorcycle Album
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157668325344869
The bike attained movie fame being the motorcycle ridden by Steve McQueen in the film the Great Escape, while the aesthetically and mechanically.Triumph 650 Thunderbird also saw Triumphs US sales surge following the release of the 1954 film the Wild Ones where Marlon Brando rode into town on his Triumph with a bunch of bikers. That film was based on events occurring in Hollister, California, in July 1947. where a small group of motorcyclists attending an AMA Gypsy Tour became drunk and disorderly, and the incident received wide national publicity.'
Many thanks for a Marmalising
52,954.767 views
Shot 15.06.2016 at the Coventry Festival of Motoring, Coventry REF 118-141
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141 Triumph 500cc ST Speed Twin (1938) DDU 988
Triumph 500cc ST Speed Twin (1938) Engine 493cc Vertical Twin
Registration Number DDU 988 (Coventry)
TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLE ALBUM
Launched at the 1937 London Motorcycle Show, with an Edward Turner designed Vee Twin, earlier vertical twins had suffered from excess bulk, Turner's was lighter and narrower across the crankcase than the contemporary single-cylinder Tiger 90, whose cycle parts it shared, and it proved a design that would lift Triumph out of its economic doldrums.
With an overall weight of 355 lbs (dry) and an engine output of 26bhp the road going version returned a top speed of 85 mph for the Speed Twin with 100mph attainable from the Tiger 100
TRIUMPH Motorcycle Album
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157668325344869
The bike attained movie fame being the motorcycle ridden by Steve McQueen in the film the Great Escape, while the aesthetically and mechanically.Triumph 650 Thunderbird also saw Triumphs US sales surge following the release of the 1954 film the Wild Ones where Marlon Brando rode into town on his Triumph with a bunch of bikers. That film was based on events occurring in Hollister, California, in July 1947. where a small group of motorcyclists attending an AMA Gypsy Tour became drunk and disorderly, and the incident received wide national publicity.'
Many thanks for a Marmalising
52,954.767 views
Shot 15.06.2016 at the Coventry Festival of Motoring, Coventry REF 118-141
.