Triumph factory visit

[Jimbo.]

After years of wanting to, today I finally got to have a nose around the Triumph factory as part of the “Triumph Factory Visitor Experience”.
And, in a nutshell, it’s good. The museum is small, but has the key bikes throughout their history in there and is a nice starter. Then you’ve the walk around the factory floor, which officially lasts about 90 mins, however ours ran to about 2hrs. Being a working factory you’re kept to walkways, standing areas etc, but you see what going on and are taken through all the stages (paintshop to open soon) from crank grinding to final rolling road check. Plenty of explanation, both about the firm, it’s people, it’s commercial/logistical/manufacturing set up and of course the products and processes. Seeing the bikes along the assembly line was rather cool. Our guide (Neil) was rather entertaining and kept things flowing nicely, as well as being all too happy to take questions.
Finally there’s the last bit of the trip, with the 2018 range, testing mules, stripped down bikes, technical info boards etc, etc.
Properly nice day out, particularly if you like the Triumph story

[podman]

Sounds like an interesting couple of hours, how do you get on a visit mate?

[Lugy]

We went down a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it! Probably quite sad but I was most impressed at the crankshaft shop using machines I ran in my last job. Even my OH found it interesting which is surprising!

[Jimbo.]

podman said:

Sounds like an interesting couple of hours, how do you get on a visit mate?

Easy-peasy!

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