Triumph TR6 Development Timeline Derek Graham The following paper provides a summary of the key events leading up to Triumph’s TR6 press announcement on the 10th January 1969 and its release to Dealers for sale in April 1969. Most of the information that...
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Triumph TR6 Development Timeline Derek Graham The following paper provides a summary of the key events leading up to Triumph’s TR6 press announcement on the 10th January 1969 and its release to Dealers for sale in April 1969. Most of the information that follows is from the Standard Triumph Board papers for the period August to December 1967. These papers are held by the Modern Records Centre in Warwick University and covers the period from the proposal of the TR5 replacement. The papers comprise minutes of Board meetings; General Manager's reports for periods 10-12; 5 year plan for 1967/8- 1971/2; cash and capital budgets for 1967/8; revenue budgets for 1967/8 and last but by no means least a number of photographs of the new TR6. The Modern Records Centre were very accommodating during my visit allowing me to take images of any papers where I found any reference to the TR6. I assembled the relevant text into a timeline supplemented with information from the prototype register, product
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