Advantages: Ahead of its time Disadvantages: Handled very poorly. Slow.
...arrived on the doorstep.
A Triumph Herald 12/50, in lovely gleaming white, matching white colour-coded rubber bumpers, with a canvas slide-back sunroof, and to top it all, a RADIO.
This was nirvana for a 15-year-old boy heavily into the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and all the popular music of the time, and a vast improvement on the old Dansette transistor radio that had sat on the dashboard of the old Anglia, which had truly dreadful reception. ... ...Herald)
~ ~ The Triumph Herald first took to the roads in 1959, and was to have a very successful twelve-year production run until the final car rolled out of the factory in 1981. It was a stylish car for its day, having been conceived by an Italian designer called Michelotti.
It’s attractive exterior disguised somewhat the rather dated technology used by Triumph in its manufacture. By this period most other car manufacturers had adopted a solid ...
the_mad_cabbie 16.12.2003 (20.12.2003)
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Advantages: Ease of maintenance. Running costs. Quite advanced in many ways Disadvantages: Strange mixture of old and new ideas. 'Odd' cornering to say the least
...five year old low-ish mileage Triumph Herald 12/50. Lovely it looked too, in that classy royal blue of the day touched off by those white rubber strakes that were the forerunners of today’s plastic bumpers. I’d read up a lot on the subject (yes even before Ciao), and was impressed by the fact that this range of Triumphs, i.e. Heralds, Spitfires and Vitesses all still had a chassis when everyone else had succumbed to monocoque (one piece body) construction.
... ...feeling’ that gave so many Triumph owners 'kittens' when it first happened. I purchased a flexible bar, which was on unofficial add-on to the rear suspension. This discouraged the rear wheels rushing to meet each other without stiffening the ride, and was a vast improvement. Having said that, the relatively soft ride gave back seat passengers a pleasant surprise (at least until you cornered anyway). This handling flaw, with wheels at alarming angles ...
BNibbles 11.05.2004 (12.05.2004)
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