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... 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 ... Read review

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The Herald - A True British Triumph

Advantages: Ahead of its time
Disadvantages: Handled very poorly. Slow.

...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. ...
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~ ~ 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 ... more

the_mad_cabbie 16.12.2003 (20.12.2003)
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Heralding in A New Era With Old Parts

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) · Read full review
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How to survive a long car journey !

Advantages: relieve boredom
Disadvantages: could cause one too many distractions

favourite used to be spot the funny foreign-made car. Now's it spot the funny British-made car, or spot the foreign-made car with a relatively large input of British components and labour. If you live in the south-east another excellent game is spot the piece of road without a car on it. Road atlases come into their own on long journeys, which is why it's sensible not to keep them in the boot. Over the years manufacturers of road atlases have been involved in a size war with the result that an open road atlas is now the same width as your windscreen. On the other hand you have to beware of much smaller, hard-back road atlases that came from your grandmother's Triumph Herald. They're much handier but they don't have any motorways in them and all the roads lead to Stonehenge. ...

joeyhey2007 30.01.2009 · Read full review
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Still Going Strong

Advantages: Reliable, good ride for long distances.
Disadvantages: Styling, what styling? A maiden aunt's car

't stalled it when you’re playing the stereo. Opening the bonnet lid reveals a reasonably accessible layout, and the rocker box cover proudly proclaims “Dual Overhead Camshaft 16 valve” – if I’d had that on my first 1 litre car, a Triumph Herald, I’d have thought I’d bought a sports car. These days, it’s more to do with engine efficiency. The GX version has a sensible but not overwhelming list of extras, central locking, a factory-fit tilt or slide sun roof, a decent Nissan-badged Blaupunkt 4-speaker stereo with “tweeters” in the front window pillars (well, it was, but it chose to pack up just outside of the 3-year guarantee period – wonderful, not), rear wash-wipe, remote headlights-leveller (important with a small car where four passengers can add 60% to the weight ...

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Advantages: Great fun to drive
Disadvantages: VERY basic motoring

~ ~ Triumph was an old, indigenous UK car manufacturer who later went on to become part of the British Leyland Group of companies, back in the (good old?) days when there was still such a thing as an indigenous UK car manufacturer. They were well made motorcars, and in fact I passed my driving test in an old Triumph Herald 12/50 way back in 1968. Maybe that's why I've always had a wee bit of a soft spot for them. ~ ~ Triumph were also renowned as manufacturers of sports cars, the best known of which were probably the Triumph Spitfire, the Triumph GT6, the Triumph Stag, and two later models, the Triumph TR6 and TR7. I owned a Spitfire for a short period in the early 1970's, when I still considered myself a wee bit of a "jack the lad", and wanted to cut a bit of a dash with the ladies. It was a 1969 Mark Two model, with a 1600cc twin ...

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