A bicycle company located in England and owned and operated by two Germans hardly seems like a sound basis for a motorcycle manufacturing firm that was to have a proifound effect on the highly competitive, performance oriented motorcycle industry. But this is essentially what Triumph Engineering Co., Ltd. looked like when it began, although it wasn't to acquire its present name until the mid '30's.
Triumph's founder, Seigfried Bettmann, did a bang up job of making bicycles, beginning in 1885, and a couple of years later he enlisted the services of a young fellow countryman, an engineer by the name of M.J. Shulte, who had better things in mind than leg power...
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