Triumph Motorcycles

I hate to share the Telegraph website as its awful to use but there are some good pics here from the dispute in the 70s

Another couple of Meriden Works images I'd not seen before:

Found in a side street on Crete last August

Isn't that one of those 'Imposter' Hinckley jobs

You mean it should be called a Bloor Tiger?

We'll let him off - at least the name is still trading. Just wish the car brand would make a return. I think BMW still own those naming rights.

Neil, a lot of these "Hinckley jobs" are made in the far east, as was mine. I bought it new 6 years ago and it's never put a foot wrong (should I have said that ?).

I didn't realise that before Mr Bloor purchased it, it was called Triumph Engineering and not Triumph Motorcycles.

Some additional images of Steve McQueen in 1964 have turned up -

Steve and his team mates at Meriden collecting their bikes prior to competing in the International 6 day trial held in Germany in 1964. The guy in the white T shirt is Bud Ekins, it was he who jumped the fence on the motorbike in the film, The Great Escape. Unfortunately McQueen failed to finish. Good memories for me as I had a similar model, like many, I wish I had still got it.