Triumph Motorcycles, Meriden Documentary 1983 Part 1

Very interesting, original 1983 documentary about the struggle for survival of the Triumph workers Co-Operative in the Meriden works.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Triumph
• Motorcycles
• Bonneville
• Tiger
• Thunderbird
• Trident
• Meriden
• Coventry

[360jeepboy]

Is there anywhere I could buy this video?

[davytriumph]

Sorry,

I recorded this from the telly in 1983 and only recently transferred it to DVD for personal use.

[SarahSoulFood]

I live in Meriden. Found two brand new engine casings when we moved in. We've yet to find a good home for them.

[crumplezone1]

Thanks for sharing a piece of history, those lads skilled tradesmen let down by a tinpot Goverment that could of invested in people and manufacturing but instead wanted to create service industries how damn stupid!.

[silver760]

The UK government did its best to destroy all UK industry and move over to a cash shoveling economy.The middle finger was shown to industry and every thing that could be done to remove what the government saw as a "Troublesome" industry was done.The gov were more interested in banking and finance as it was the "in" thing.What was done to what was the biggest and best manufacturing industry in the world by the governments of the time was criminal.The UK became a wasteland while london thrived.

[BeetleBerlin]

Bonneville TSX. 

[Motosadik]

@davytriumph

Thank you for sheering it with us .

[67genxer]

We do it to ourselves and hate and point at everyone else when it's us that's to blame. Long live the Meriden Triumph. God bless and thanks for posting this interesting video. I am going out to buy a 1976 Trident to add to my '67 BSA Spitfire! I also own a 2006 HD Streetbob with a springer fork, a 1991 Evo FXSTS and a 1984 Kawasaki Z1100R Lawson, 1980 Honda CX500. As you can see I am objective and not predudice

[67genxer]

Harley Davidson, of whom I work for, is increasingly reflecting our effed up culture here in the USA with an alarmingly increasing number of Taiwanese , Chinese and Japanese parts on their "all american" motorcycle. I have a problem with the flag wavers going down the highway on their late model bikes with old glory waving in the wind but I guess that the bike reflects us at this point in time...not very pretty and rather pathetic.

[67genxer]

I want the real thing because anyone who knows what's its like to ride a real Triumph knows, there is no subsitute and you can be proud when you have sorted all the bugs out of it and no the XS650 is not the triumph that triumph should have built, it's the triumph that Yamaha built, it's still faceless, without character and irrelevent and the Triumph will still kick it's ass. Another point,

[67genxer]

and it's made in America etc etc so it's still American Pie" I find it sickening...I prefer products from places that refect the cultures of those countries...A British bike or Italian or German is so much like looking at that countries passion or lack of it and that's where Japan comes in, there is no passion it's just business as usual and that's why they do well and why we don't when we not only create the products we won't buy but then we don't buy them either! interestingly,