Lot details
Registration No: 727 UXW
Frame No: TF4339
Engine No: 465T78666
cc: 500
MOT Expiry Date: None

Triumph announced their first post war range of machines in March 1945 with the Speed Twin and Tiger 100 heading the range. Both machines benefitted from the adoption of telescopic front forks but were otherwise much as the machines catalogued for the 1939 season. The Triumph model season resulted in very few 1945 season machines being produced before introduction of 1946 season machines on the line during the autumn of 1945. The 1946 season Speed Twin saw the model reverting to the Amaranth red with chromium plated tank panels instead of the somewhat austere black paintwork of the 1945 season machines. The ancillary instruments and switchgear were housed in the tank top with the speedometer being mounted on the top fork yolk establishing the general pattern for the machine over the next few seasons.
The example offered is an early 1946 season machine having been built and registered during 1945 and is one of an extremely limited number of machines built during that year to survive. It was restored during 2005 with a great deal of attention being paid to originality and is offered in beautiful condition with a Swansea V5C and an original parts book.