GEARHEADS :- the Triumph Golden days

[yamaha_george]

Film, "sponsored by Triumph" showing how things were done in the 50s.
Part 1, starts a bit whimsically but then follows production from
hearth-brazing frames onward:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ABelgFdjA

Part 2, from piston machining to final assembly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipiD6nm7Iy0

Part 3 of 3, testing, then triumphs in use, French and British police, Royal
Signals display team, trials, TT, Edward Turner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahAoNvH2pQ

and, if you still haven't had enough, a documentary (in 5 parts) from the
last days of the co-operative when they were trying to bring in a new model.
Lots of politics etc. but also some factory/foundry/design office stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4rNAa3oOrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0q4ENgbFrw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbR6gLpZw9M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWj-1YYt-aI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_avjrBKXQs

at one point, the design of the new engine was said to have been "done on
the South coast". Doug Hele worked fro British Seagull in Poole when he left
the motorbike industry....