Registration No: PRX 164B
Frame No: 29289
Engine No: 29043NA
CC: 500
MOT: Exempt

• Been in army service from 1965-1971
• Restored around 1999 by the previous owner
• V5C document on file

The first Triumph motorcycle, actually a Belgian Minerva-engined bicycle, was produced in Coventry in 1902. Later, Fafnir and then JAP motors were employed, before Triumph made their own. Their first Val Page designed, parallel vertical-twin was announced in 1933. Ariel owner Jack Sangster acquired Triumph in 1936. Edward Turner designed a 498cc overhead-valve, parallel-twin which powered the 1937 Speed Twin, the engine forming the basis of many more Triumphs until the 1980s. Triumph were eventually blitzed out of the Coventry works by the Luftwaffe. Before that happened, they produced large numbers of 3HW 350cc singles for the British Army.

This 1964 Triumph TRW has actually since been used. Supplied with army issue number ‘04 EN 87’ on the 1st of February 1965 then it went to 9/12 Lancers in 1971 and thereafter it was withdrawn from service where it ended up in Antwerp, Belgium. Purchased in 1982, with the intent to restore it back to its former glory, we believe this was completed in 1999. Purchased by the vendor, and then very little use since, it is offered complete with a V5C.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217