Triumph's EDWARD TURNER Blue Plaque unveiling event speech

[PaulKasner]

Nice to see Edward T recognised, even if his designs were, with perfect hindsight, as significantly flawed as they were hugely elegant, cost-effective and popular in their day. (Turner believed in revs; his key rivals Hopwood and Page believed in torque.) The 1960s Japanese, who moved from simple copy-and-improve to radical clean-sheet innovation, effectively ended the entire British carnival by worshipping at Turner's altar of more revs too.