Canadian Triumph TRWs

[DanJahn]

Very useful information.

I'm trying to collect most/all the motorcycles used by Canadian dispatch riders.

I have a Harley WLC, BSA M20, Triumph TRW (3), CanAm Bombardier and Norton 16H.

A couple of the bikes are on display at the Canadian Military Education Centre and Museum on the former Chilliwack army base in B.C.

I hope to put together a bigger display in the future.

If anyone has any ex Canadian forces motorcycles for sale ( or donate) please contact me.

Dan

CMEC

www.cmedcentre.ca

[45jim]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1952-...item3f0553fdce

Pretty nice looking bike, just a few problems:

-Wrong spark plugs
-Wrong passenger seat pad
-Non-painted primary cover, should be green
-no air pump
-wrong location for decompression handle, should be close to the grip
-no CFR on tank or on blade
-early serial number for engine 1TRW24885 I will ask fro frame numbers

Not a bad price.

Jim

[DanJahn]

Hi group

I see there have been no replies to my TRW quiz earlier in this thread. Before I reveal what I believe is the correct answer does anyone want to take a shot at the answer?

Dan

[Grant Bowker]

2 possible answers, no reason to believe either is correct:
ridden from one factory to the crating point at another
ridden around a specific route for testing before acceptance
Who has more suggestions?

[45jim]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Very-...item255f30adb9

This bikes runs well and seems to be very original. The only things I noticed:

-modified headlight nacelle with light switch added
-incorrect dash ignition switch
-collapsed fuel lines
-wrong hose to carb from aircleaner
-odd wiring by battery
-too small seat cover

Neat though, the bike has original ignition wires with WD noise supressors.

Certainly not Royal Signals, but a regular DND machine. I don't know what those gloves are but the issued ones would be black leather gauntlets of some style or other.

Jim

[DanJahn]

Good answers Grant. I like them even more than what I was told which I will reveal later in this thread.

Dan

[rob love]

Jim
That same bike is on Kijiji for 6K. It has been on ebay 3 times now and failed to get a bid. That is the same bike from posts #2 and 3 from this thread.

Seems like November would be a slow sales month for bikes.

[DanJahn]

Hi

I think it did get up to about $5200 in one of the Ebay listing but didn't reach the reserve price. Perhaps those that bid before can't be bothered this time around.

Somewhere I read they took it as a trade in.

Dan

[45jim]

Triumph engines were not normally dyno run at the factory prior to installation in the frame. My NOS TRW engine has never been run and it still attached to the storage crate. Like most manufacturers, the m/c was built completely and then broken down for crating as required, not all vehicles were to be crated for shipping. TRW's manufactured for British forces that were to be used in Britian and not added to war reserve were most likely not crated. This would be the vast majority of the TRW production.

A proportion of the manufactured motorcycles were ridden around a test track prior to the installation of chassis dynos in the late sixties. If a m/c was to be crated for export it would most likely have been run as there would be no option to correct faults otherwise. Domestic machines could be repaired under warranty at dealerships.

There are many books written by test riders of English machines as these guys are often the best source of data on rare machines. They kept detailed logs of each bike, the mileage and the type of failure they experienced. From one book I read, it seems that most bikes got a short ride through the gears of less than 10 miles while others were subjected to harsher testing. All of this was done without following the prescribed "break in" regime. Makes you wonder if the break in process was designed to keep RPM's down until the warranty expired.

Jim