TriumphTR2

Triumph TR2 History

From a white prototype at the 1952 London Motor Show to the TR3 that replaced it in October 1955: how Standard-Triumph made a sports car in one winter, proved it in Belgium and sold it to America.

A black-and-white photograph of a TR2 numbered 31 racing side by side with a low, rounded Porsche spyder numbered 36 on a wet bend, two more cars behind and a full grandstand beyond.
A TR2 beside a Porsche 550 spyder in the sports-car races at Zandvoort, the Netherlands, on 7 August 1955.Harry Pot (Anefo), CC0

"There are some last-minute surprises," Bill Boddy wrote from the London Motor Show at Earls Court for Motor Sport in October 1952. One stood on Standard-Triumph's stand, number 125: a small white open two-seater called the 20TS. Three years later, at the same show, the car it had become stood beside its successor, the TR3.

Between those two shows the car was re-engineered over one winter, timed at more than two miles a minute on a Belgian road, built at Canley in Coventry and sold, two cars in every three, abroad. It won the RAC Rally outright, finished Le Mans as a works team of three, and began the line of Triumph TRs.⁠1​2​3​4​5​6​7​8​9

Before the TR2

Standard, the Coventry maker run by Sir John Black, bought what was left of the bankrupt Triumph company at the end of the war, the Standard Motor Club records, and Black wanted a Triumph sports car to sell against MG and Jaguar in the United States. Triumph's open cars of the late 1940s were the 1800 and 2000 Roadsters, and by TR-Register Deutschland's account the 2000 had Standard's new wet-liner four from 1948, the engine of the Vanguard saloon (sedan).

The first attempt at the sports car was the TRX of 1950, which the Standard Motor Club credits to Walter Belgrove. It was built with a double skin of aluminium and so many electric and hydraulic accessories that they soon proved unreliable, by the Standard Motor Club's account.

The car was going to be far too expensive to sell competitively, so after the third prototype the project was scrapped.

Standard Motor Club, "Walter Belgrove", 2023

TR-Register Deutschland also counts three prototypes. The engine for the next car was already to hand. Standard's wet-liner four had been designed for the Ferguson tractor and the Vanguard, with wet cylinder liners that let its bore be changed easily, and it had proved its reliability in tractors and in the Vanguard, as Boddy noted in 1955.⁠10​4​11

A silver streamlined roadster with covered headlamps, a horizontal-bar grille and covered rear wheels, on stone paving in a formal garden before a gilded statue.
A Triumph TRX prototype of 1949–50, from Standard's first attempt at a sports car after the war, at the Classic-Gala Schwetzingen in September 2025.Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0
The grey four-cylinder engine of a farm tractor, wet with rain: cylinder head with spark-plug leads, a coil and a glass fuel bowl beside the radiator.
A stand-in for the TR2's engine: Standard's wet-liner four in a Ferguson TE20 tractor at Abergavenny in 2011, the engine family from which the TR2's was derived. It is not a TR2 engine.Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0

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The 20TS, 1952

By TR-Register Deutschland's account, the TR2's story starts in Walter Belgrove's office in 1952, when Black asked his chief designer for an inexpensive sports car. Motor Sport later dated the start of the design to about March 1952. The prototype was put together from what Standard had: the chassis of the small Standard Eight, the axle and suspension of the Triumph Mayflower, a modified Vanguard gearbox (transmission), and the Vanguard engine with smaller bores and a new cylinder head for two carburettors.

It was ready for the London show in October.

Triumph show their very compact new 20 T.S., a quite small sports two-seater with full-width body, semi-sunk headlamps (but exposed side lamps), having an under-2-litre version of the Vanguard engine and room literally for only two, for there is no flat shelf behind the bucket seats. The car exhibited is in white, like a bathroom fitting.

Bill Boddy, Motor Sport, November 1952

The show guide claimed 75 bhp at 4,500 rpm and 154 km/h (96 mph); Boddy, looking back in 1955, gave the prototype 90 mph. Motor Sport printed the name three ways in two issues: "20 T.S.", "20 TS", and "Triumph TS20" in the price and engine tables of its December survey.

What became of the 20TS is not known from the sources read. An auction catalogue of 2019 gives its number as X505, and it may have been scrapped (Piggott, as cited by Wikipedia).⁠4​11​1​2​12​13​14​15

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From 20TS to TR2, 1952–53

Ken Richardson, BRM's development and test driver, drove the prototype and reputedly condemned it, and he was then invited to join Standard-Triumph in 1952, as Richard Heseltine told the story in Motor Sport in 2010. TR-Register Deutschland dates the work of turning the 20TS into the TR2 from November 1952 to March 1953.

They improved the shape of the tail, stiffened the frame, fitted an overdrive gear and increased the power output to 90 b.h.p.

W.B. (Bill Boddy), "Impressions of the Triumph TR2", Motor Sport, February 1955

The TR Register describes the same work as a complete redesign, with "a new chassis frame", a more powerful engine and a lengthened tail. The two accounts do not agree whether the frame was stiffened or replaced, and neither cites a factory record. The production frame, in the factory's own description, was made of channel steel pressings braced by a cruciform member.

Richardson then lapped the Motor Industry Research Association's track at Lindley at over 100 mph for hours on end, Boddy wrote: the chassis proved stable, but the engine threw its big-end bearings and broke exhaust valves. The workshop manual later records stellite-tipped exhaust valves of a nickel-chromium-tungsten steel in engines after TS481E, without saying why.

Who did the engineering is printed three ways. In July 1953 Boddy credited an engineering team of three by surname, Grinham, Dawtrey and Belgrove (Ted Grinham was Standard's chief engineer); the TR Register names Harry Webster as chief chassis engineer, with John Turnbull on the chassis, David Eley on the engine, George Jones on the transmission, Belgrove on the body and Richardson as tester. Graham Robson's essay for the Rimmer catalogue, a third account, credits Webster's engineers, Belgrove's body designers and Richardson's diligence in sorting out the problems. Who designed the Triumph TR2? sets the lists side by side. The finished car was shown at the Geneva motor show in March 1953.⁠16​13​4​11​6​5​17​18​10​19​7

A black TR2 seen from above and behind: boot lid, tail lamps, chrome overriders and a red cockpit with its dials, in a busy paddock.
The tail the redesign lengthened, on a TR2 at the Nationaal Oldtimer Festival, Zandvoort, in 2009.Alf van Beem, CC0

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Jabbeke, May 1953

In May 1953 Standard took a TR2 to the motor road at Jabbeke, in Belgium, for the Jabbeke speed test, with Richardson driving before the timekeepers of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. It was in what the factory called high speed trim, with overdrive, a metal tonneau and an undershield, and its engine, Motor Sport reported, gave 93 bhp. The factory's table gives the means of two runs, one in each direction: 124.889 mph over the flying kilometre and 124.095 mph over the flying mile. In touring trim, with the hood (soft top) up and the undershield but no overdrive, the same car did 108.959 mph over the kilometre.

The run went straight into the advertising. The brochure of December 1953 announced "124 m.p.h. ON THE JABBEKE HIGHWAY, BELGIUM", and Standard-Triumph's American advertisements of 1954 quoted the speed-trim and touring figures side by side.

In its standard touring trim and without overdrive it is capable of at least 100 m.p.h.

Triumph Motor Company, TR2 brochure, December 1953

The car, registered MVC 575, survives.⁠5​20​21​22

A pale green Triumph TR2 prototype seen from the front three-quarter in a museum hall, other classic sports cars and display boards around it.
MVC 575, the TR2 Ken Richardson drove at Jabbeke in May 1953, at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon, in July 2022.Calreyn88, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Production begins, 1953

The first two production cars, TS1 with left-hand drive and TS2 with right-hand drive, were completed on 22 July 1953. By the TR Register's account they were hand-assembled at Banner Lane, every later car was assembled in the old halls at Canley, and series production ran from August. The bodies came from Mulliners in Birmingham, Graham Robson writes.

Export was to come first, as Boddy expected in July:

… I am confident that this Triumph will start selling like very delicious hot cakes when it is released for export this month. It is certainly the Sports Car of the Moment.

Bill Boddy, "The Sports Cars of Britain", Motor Sport, July 1953

By the end of 1953 Standard had built the cars numbered TS1 to TS305, by the Rimmer catalogue's table, and Revington TR records TS299L leaving the works on 31 December; the TR Register counts 248 delivered before the year was out. The figures can all be right, for cars built, cars despatched and cars delivered are not the same count.

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1954: the name is made

Motor Sport reported in February 1954 that Sir John Black had been injured in a Swallow Doretti that Ken Richardson was demonstrating, adding that the car was not to blame, and that he had retired from the board, leaving Alick Dick in charge of Standard. The report does not give the date of the accident.

In America, Black had announced a new company, Standard-Triumph Motor Co., and Motor Trend drove what it called "the first TR-2 to reach the Coast".

We confidently expect . . . that the Triumph will lead the sports car field in 1954.

Sir John Black, as quoted by Motor Trend, February 1954

The company advertised from Los Angeles and New York in April 1954, and two distributors split the country between them, Cal Sales in California and South Eastern Motors in Florida. A black TR2 stood at the New York show that spring.

The TR2 made its name in competition. J. C. Wallwork won the RAC Rally outright in March with P. G. Cooper second, both in TR2s, and Mary Walker took the ladies' award in another. Maurice Gatsonides and Richardson finished the Mille Miglia in May, 27th overall and 7th in the 2,000 cc sports class in racingsportscars' results, though Motor Sport reported 28th at the time. Edgar Wadsworth's private TR2, shared with John Brown, finished 15th at Le Mans in June. On the Alpine Rally that summer the team award went to three TR2s, driven by Gatsonides, Kat and a Richardson whose first name Motor Sport does not give, and a Coupe des Alpes went to a Triumph. All six TR2s finished the Tourist Trophy at Dundrod in September, and TR2 teams took team awards; in October, TR2s took the first three places in the first Macau Grand Prix. The works formed a competition department, which Ken Richardson ran; the racing page has the results.

Owners were organised too. In 1954 Triumph formed an owners' association, five shillings to join, with a badge and handbooks that held the car's specification, its power curve and a log for competition results.

The car itself changed in the autumn. From TS4002, in October 1954, shorter doors replaced the first cars' long doors, with an outer sill panel (rocker panel) added below them, and a TR2 hardtop was at the Guild of Motoring Writers' test day that month, though cars were built to take one only from February 1955.⁠24​25​21​26​8​27​28​29​30​31​32​33​34​35​36​23​37

A black-and-white photograph of a white open two-seater on a low white plinth under a hanging STANDARD-TRIUMPH sign, one man in a suit seated at the wheel, saloons parked behind.
Plate I A long-door TR2 on the stand of Standard-Triumph's Dutch importer at the Amsterdam motor show, 24 February 1954.Wim van Rossem (Anefo), CC0

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1955: the works team

H. E. Rumsey finished second overall on the RAC Rally in March, and at Easter TR2s took first, second, third, fifth and sixth places on the Circuit of Ireland. In America that April, the Triumph Sports Owners Association, the importer's owners' club, published the first issue of its Newsletter in New York. Five TR2s started the Mille Miglia in May, and one finished, 59th.

In June Standard-Triumph sent a works team of three to Le Mans, the race in which, Motor Sport reported at the time, well over 80 people were killed in an accident opposite the pits. All three TR2s finished, 14th, 15th and 19th, and the team had been trying disc brakes: the Triumph TR2 at Le Mans in 1955 tells their race. On the Liège–Rome–Liège, by the American owners' club's report of September, TR2s took the first three places in their class, and two of the three TR2s in the Tourist Trophy finished in September.

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The TR3 takes over: TR2 vs TR3

When the London show opened in October 1955, the TR3 was on show alongside the TR2. It was the same car in most respects, on the same chassis and with the same engine and body, short doors included.

… the new TR3 model, which has its power output increased from 90 b.h.p. at 4,800 r.p.m. to 95 b.h.p. at the same crankshaft speed, retaining the same gear ratios, and overdrive if required, will be a source of great interest.

"Sports and High-Performance Cars at Earls Court", Motor Sport, November 1955
PointTR2TR3, October 1955
FrontOpen air intake, its mesh set well backA grille across the intake
Behind the seatsRoom for luggage onlyRoom for an optional occasional seat
Fuel tankAs first builtA little smaller, to make room for the seat
SidescreensFixed panelsSliding windows
BrakesDrums all roundDrums at first; front discs from TS13046, in the autumn of 1956
Commission numbersTS1 to TS8636From TS8637, or from TS8709 by the Rimmer table

The American owners' club's announcement gave the power as "100 horsepower", and added brighter trim and two additional colours. No source read gives Standard's reasons for the changes, though the grille and the occasional seat answer two of the testers' complaints, about the bare mouth and the lack of room behind the seats.

The disc brakes had been tried on the TR2 first. "This year Triumph experimented with two different makes at Le Mans and used such brakes in the T.T.," Boddy wrote that November.

The last TR2, TS8636, was built on 6 October 1955 by the Rimmer catalogue's table; Revington TR puts the end in September. The first TR3 is TS8637 in Revington's list and TR-Register Deutschland's, but TS8709 in the Rimmer table, and no source read says what the numbers between were.

Three sidescreen sports cars parked nose-on in a car park: a black one with a flush grille and two whose grilles sit deep in the mouth.
A TR3 (left), with the grille across its air intake, beside two TR2s with the open intake, at a motor show in Johannesburg in 2025.Bobbyshabangu, CC0

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Production and where the cars went

Two totals for the TR2 are in print, eight cars apart, and no source says what either counts. TR-Register Deutschland notes that not all the commission numbers were used, which would reconcile the two by our arithmetic, though it names no unused number. Triumph TR2 chassis numbers sets out both totals and the numbers.

Exports took about two-thirds of the cars, on the home and export split the TR Register and Rimmer print. In Belgium, Impéria assembled about 500 TR2s from kits at Nessonvaux, with an N after the commission number, as Classic Motorsports and Auto Zeitung report; shipping kits, Classic Motorsports says, avoided tax. Belgium, the export cars and America tells that part of the story.⁠6​7​4​52​53

A village street with a curved concrete banking rising above a long brick wall, part of a test track built on a factory roof.
The banked end of the test track on the roof of the old Impéria works at Nessonvaux, Belgium, where about 500 TR2s were assembled from kits, in October 2022.Hoebele, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Afterlife

The owners' clubs began with the car. By the end of 1955 Motor Sport could mention "an enthusiastic TR2 Association", and in 1957 it credited I. J. Penrice, Standard's publicity manager, with starting the TR owners' club. No source read gives a reliable count of the TR2s that survive.

TR2s went on racing and rallying in historic events: Heseltine noted in 2010 that they were eligible for the Mille Miglia and Le Mans Classic retrospectives. PKV 374, one of the 1955 Le Mans cars, raced at Le Mans again in the Le Mans Legend races of 2005 and 2006. TS1 and TS2, both restored, were shown together at the TR Register's international show at Malvern in 2004.

MVC 575, which had been a familiar car at TR Register events since the mid-1970s, was restored by a private owner (UK) in just under two years and taken back to Jabbeke in 2017. In March 2020 it went on show at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon, which had bought it with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and promised that it would sometimes be seen running.⁠48​54​13​14​23​22

A white open sports car with its sidescreens up and two helmeted occupants, racing past a steel barrier on a circuit.
A TR2 on the circuit of Dijon-Prenois during the Tour Auto, April 2016.François de Dijon, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Sources

Every source the site cites is on the sources page.

  • Primarymade at the time, by the maker or by people who were there
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  49. Bill Boddy, "The Editor Discusses Show Business", Motor Sport, Nov 1955, p. 25, p. 25, disc brakes at Le Mans and in the T.T.. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1955/25/the-editor-discusses-show-business Primary
  50. Denis Jenkinson ("Paris-Montlhéry"), Earls Court and Paris show reports (group): "Review of Earls Court" (p. 11), "Motor Show Comment" (p. 36), "Paris-Montlhéry" (p. 44), "On the Earls Court Motor Show" (p. 47), Motor Sport, Nov 1953, pp. 11, 36, 44, 47, "Motor Show Comment", p. 36, room behind the seats. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1953/47/on-the-earls-court-motor-show Primary
  51. Al Brannon, "Trying the Triumph", Sports Cars Illustrated, Nov 1955, pp. 19–21, pp. 19–21, the front end. Primary
  52. Dirk De Jager, "Through the Roof: The Hardtop Triumph TR2 That Held Promises of the Belgian Auto Industry", Classic Motorsports, Jul 2016, Impéria's kits. classicmotorsports.com/articles/through-roof-hardtop-triumph-tr2-held-promises-bel Reference
  53. Klaus Rosshuber, "Triumph TR2 Francorchamps: Classic Cars – Ein Traum wird wahr", Auto Zeitung, 7 Sep 2023, the kits and the "N" suffix. autozeitung.de/fahrbericht-triumph-tr2-franchorchamps-69954.html Reference
  54. Bill Boddy, "Sports Cars of the 'Big Five'", Motor Sport, May 1957, p. 15, I. J. Penrice and the owners' club. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1957/15/sports-cars-of-the-big-five Primary

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