TriumphTR2

Triumph TR2 Books and Sources

The brochure, workshop manual, magazines, club papers, results tables and archives behind every page of this site, each with its address and how far to trust it.

A black open sports car with a maroon cover over its cockpit, driven fast past a blurred crowd and buildings, its driver in a pale helmet and goggles.
A long-door TR2 driven hard past the crowd at the Grand Prix Historique de Tunisie, October 2018.Monaam Ben Fredj, CC BY-SA 4.0

The oldest sources behind this site are two items in Motor Sport for November 1952: its guide to the London Motor Show, which lists the 20TS prototype on the Triumph stand, and Bill Boddy's report from the show. Every source the site cites is in the list below, from the factory's brochure and manual and the magazines of the 1950s to the clubs' guides, a specialist's change points and the tables of race results, each with its address printed as plain text where it has one.⁠1​2

How the sources are graded

The word beside a source grades the kind of source it is, not every line in it, and there are four. Primary sources date from the 1950s and come from the factory or from witnesses: the factory's brochure of December 1953 and its workshop manual, Motor Sport's reports and impressions of 1952–55, Motor Trend and Sports Cars Illustrated in America, and the newsletter of the American owners' club, which was the importer's own and is read as such. Reference sources are later work done with care: the TR Register's and TR-Register Deutschland's guides, Revington TR's change points, the Standard Motor Club's history of Walter Belgrove, the magazine retrospectives and the 2019 sale catalogue of PKV 374, which is used for the car's history. Database sources, such as racingsportscars' results, are read one entry at a time.

Unchecked covers encyclopaedias, unsigned web pages and a reader's letter of 2010, chiefly Wikipedia and an unsigned profile of Ken Richardson in Moss Motoring. Each is cited beside a stronger source or named where it is used. A good source can still be wrong on one point, and the pages say so where it matters: Motor Sport's retrospective of 2010 has the TR3 arriving in 1956 and the wrong co-driver for Le Mans in 1954, and the factory's own brochure prints the front track in millimetres with two digits transposed.

On the other pages, small numbered marks at the end of a section lead to the list at the foot of that page, numbered by first use there, and a note after a source says where in it to look: a page, a table, a section or a caption.⁠3​4​5​6​7​8​9​10​11​12​13​14​15​16

The sources that carry most weight

Some sources, or groups of them, do most of the work on these pages:

SourceWhat it gives
The factory's brochure and workshop manualThe specification as built, the Jabbeke table, and the commission numbers at which parts changed
Motor Sport, 1952–55The 20TS at the show, the first drives and Boddy's "Impressions", and the reports of the races and rallies
Motor Trend, 1954, and Sports Cars Illustrated, 1955The two full road tests that can be read, both of cars sold in America
The American owners' club's newsletter, 1955How the car was sold in America, and what 227 owners thought of it
Revington TR and the Rimmer catalogueThe change points by date, and the commission numbers by year
TR-Register Deutschland and the TR RegisterThe production figures, the buying advice and the engineers' names
racingsportscarsRace results, with each car's crew and placing
Autoretro, Classic Motorsports, Auto Zeitung and the Triumph Club de FranceThe Belgian coupé, from four accounts

Where they disagree, the pages show each reading beside its source. The production total is one case, the brakes of the Le Mans cars in 1955 another.⁠3​4​17​18​19​20​8​21​11​22​7​5​6​23​24​25​26

Manuals, books and road tests

The workshop manual was read, from scans of the factory's sections and Bentley's reprint, The Complete Official Triumph TR2 & TR3.

Of the British weeklies' road tests, The Motor's of April 1954 survives here only in the figures Wikipedia prints, Autosport's of March 1954 only through the quotations in an American dealer's advertisement, and The Autocar's was not found. Brooklands Books has reprinted the TR2's period tests. The road tests quoted here at first hand are Motor Trend's and Sports Cars Illustrated's, with Motor Sport's reports and impressions beside them.⁠4​24​13​27

Every source

  • Primarymade at the time, by the maker or by people who were there
  • Referenceserious later work: clubs, specialists, magazines, books
  • Databaseresults and listings, entry by entry
  • Uncheckedencyclopaedias and enthusiast sites: cited beside a good source, named in the sentence, or marked Unchecked
  1. Nationaal Archief (Anefo), via Wikimedia Commons (CC0), Anefo photographs (group): "Autotentoonstelling Rai gebouw" (24 Feb 1954); "Autoraces Zandvoort voor sportwagens" (7 Aug 1955). commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autotentoonstelling_Rai_gebouw,_Bestanddeelnr_906-3148.jpg Primary
  2. Ian Nicholls, "The Rover-Triumph story": "1960: expansion" and "1961: Leyland's takeover", AROnline, 7 Jul 2019. aronline.co.uk/history/the-rover-triumph-story/1960-expansion Reference
  3. Xavier Audiau, "Triumph TR2 Francorchamps, 1955: 22, v'là la Triumph !", Autoretro, no. 397, May 2015, pp. 12–19. beaulieumotorbe.ares.as35334.website/beaulieumotor/news/fichier/fichier_news_3_10012022161327.PDF Reference
  4. Klaus Rosshuber, "Triumph TR2 Francorchamps: Classic Cars – Ein Traum wird wahr", Auto Zeitung, 7 Sep 2023. autozeitung.de/fahrbericht-triumph-tr2-franchorchamps-69954.html Reference
  5. British Motor Museum and National Heritage Memorial Fund (as published by the TR Register and the FBHVC), Press release: the Jabbeke TR2, MVC 575, acquired by the British Motor Museum, 10 Mar 2020. old.tr-register.co.uk/article/2020/03/0220/Jabbeke-TR2-arrives-at-British-Motor-Museum Reference
  6. British Motor Museum (BMIHT), "Heritage Certificates". britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive/heritage-certificates Primary
  7. Dirk De Jager, "Through the Roof: The Hardtop Triumph TR2 That Held Promises of the Belgian Auto Industry", Classic Motorsports, Jul 2016. classicmotorsports.com/articles/through-roof-hardtop-triumph-tr2-held-promises-bel Reference
  8. FIA, "Macau is a race for all nations", 28 Oct 2017. fia.com/news/macau-race-all-nations Reference
  9. Giles Chapman, "Harry Webster" (obituary), The Independent, 17 Feb 2007. independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-webster-6228822.html Reference
  10. G. William Krause, The Illustrated History of Triumph Sports and Racing Cars, CarTech, 2017. static.summitracing.com/global/images/technicalarticles/sad-ct596.pdf Reference
  11. Paul Richardson, "Belgian Spaniard", Moss Motoring, 1 Jun 2002. mossmotoring.com/belgian-spaniard Reference
  12. Paul Richardson, "TR2 Golden Anniversary", Moss Motoring, 1 Mar 2003. mossmotoring.com/tr2-golden-anniversary Reference
  13. Graham Robson, "Harry Webster – My Technical Mentor", Moss Motoring (Moss Motors), 12 Jun 2019. mossmotoring.com/harry-webster-my-technical-mentor Reference
  14. Graham Robson, "Alick Dick: Triumph's Managing Director 1954–1961", Moss Motoring, 18 Jan 2021. mossmotoring.com Reference
  15. Graham Robson, "One Design, Many Derivatives", Moss Motoring, 26 Oct 2022. mossmotoring.com Reference
  16. Moss Motoring, "Names to Know – Triumph's Kenneth Richardson". mossmotoring.com/names-know-triumphs-kenneth-richardson Unchecked
  17. Bill Boddy, "Earls Court Review", Motor Sport, Nov 1952, p. 41. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1952/41/earls-court-review Primary
  18. Motor Sport, "Guide To Earls Court" (Triumph, stand 125), Nov 1952, p. 11. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1952/11/guide-to-earls-court Primary
  19. Bill Boddy ("W.B."), "Survey Of The New Sports-Cars", Motor Sport, Dec 1952, p. 19. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1952/19/survey-of-the-new-sports-cars Primary
  20. Bill Boddy ("W.B."), "Stop Press – A Fast Triumph", Motor Sport, Jun 1953, p. 50. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1953/50/stop-press-a-fast-triumph Primary
  21. Bill Boddy, "The Sports Cars of Britain", Motor Sport, Jul 1953, p. 19. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1953/19/the-sports-cars Primary
  22. 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. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1953/47/on-the-earls-court-motor-show Primary
  23. Bill Boddy, "Rumblings" and "Matters of Moment" (group), Motor Sport, Dec 1953, pp. 9, 31. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1953/31/rumblings-december-1953 Primary
  24. Motor Sport, "Rumblings", Feb 1954, p. 17. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-1954/17/rumblings-february-1954 Primary
  25. Bill Boddy ("W.B."), "The Magic Century!", Motor Sport, Mar 1954, p. 19. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-1954/19/the-magic-century-2 Primary
  26. Motor Sport, "Pictorial Review", Apr 1954, p. 31. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1954/31/pictorial-review Primary
  27. Motor Sport, "Triumph TR2 Wins The R.A.C. Rally", Apr 1954, p. 26. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1954/26/triumph-tr2-wins-the-rac-rally Primary
  28. Motor Sport, "B.R.D.C. British Empire Trophy Sports-Car Race at Oulton", May 1954, p. 16. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1954/16/brdc-british-empire-trophy-sports-car-race-at-oulton Primary
  29. Motor Sport, "New York Show", May 1954, p. 40. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1954/40/new-york-show Primary
  30. Motor Sport, "VII Rallye Soleil-Cannes", May 1954, p. 20. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1954/20/vii-rallye-soleil-cannes Primary
  31. Motor Sport, "Rumblings", May 1954, p. 41. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1954/41/rumblings-may-1954 Primary
  32. Motor Sport, "XXIst 1000 Miglia", Jun 1954, p. 25. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1954/25/xxist-1000-miglia Primary
  33. Motor Sport, "Mille Miglia Musings", Jun 1954, p. 29. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1954/29/mille-miglia-musings Primary
  34. Motor Sport, "Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans" (1954), Jul 1954, p. 19. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1954/19/les-vingt-quatre-heures-du-mans-1954 Primary
  35. Motor Sport, "The M.M.E.C. At Silverstone (June 5th)", Jul 1954, p. 50. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1954/50/the-mmec-at-silverstone-june-5th Primary
  36. Motor Sport, "The Triumph At Le Mans" (letter from the pit staff), Aug 1954, p. 41. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/august-1954/41/letters-readers-august-1954 Primary
  37. Motor Sport, "Matters Of Moment" (the 1954 Alpine Rally), Sep 1954, p. 15. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1954/15/matters-of-moment-september-1954 Primary
  38. Motor Sport, "Rumblings", Sep 1954, p. 22. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1954/22/rumblings-september-1954 Primary
  39. Motor Sport, "France Wins the Dundrod T.T.", Oct 1954, p. 40. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/october-1954/40/france-wins-the-dundrod-tt Primary
  40. Bill Boddy, "The Guild at Goodwood (Oct. 24th)", Motor Sport, Nov 1954, p. 37. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1954/37/the-guild-at-goodwood-oct-24th Primary
  41. Bill Boddy, "'Motor Sport' Tests – The 2-Litre Swallow Doretti", Motor Sport, Nov 1954, p. 40. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1954/40/motor-sport-tests-the-2-litre-swallow-doreatti-sm Primary
  42. Bill Boddy ("W.B."), "The M.C.C. National Rally (Nov. 10th-13th)", Motor Sport, Dec 1954, p. 21. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1954/21/the-mcc-national-rally-nov-10th-13th Primary
  43. Bill Boddy ("W.B."), "Impressions of the Triumph TR2", Motor Sport, Feb 1955, p. 30. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-1955/30/impressions-of-the-triumph-tr2 Primary
  44. Motor Sport, "Rumblings", Mar 1955, p. 25. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-1955/25/rumblings-march-1955 Primary
  45. Motor Sport, "The Triumph TR2 in Australia" (letter), Apr 1955, p. 49. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1955/49/letters-from-readers-435 Primary
  46. Motor Sport, "Standard's convincing success in difficult R.A.C. Rally", Apr 1955, p. 17. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1955/17/stardards-convicing-successin-difficullt-rac-rally Primary
  47. Bill Boddy, "Inter-Varsity Speed Trial at Tempsford", Motor Sport, Apr 1955, p. 24. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1955/24/inter-varsity-speed-trial-at-tempsford Primary
  48. Motor Sport, "Book Reviews", May 1955, p. 46. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1955/46/book-reviews-may-1955-may-1955 Primary
  49. Bill Boddy, "On Publicising The Product", Motor Sport, May 1955, p. 15. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1955/15/on-publicising-the-product Primary
  50. Motor Sport, "Comparisons", Jun 1955, p. 48. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/48/comparisons Primary
  51. Bill Boddy, "Matters of Moment", Motor Sport, Jun 1955, p. 13. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/13/matters-of-moment-june-1955 Primary
  52. Denis Jenkinson ("D.S.J."), "XXII 1000 Miglia", Motor Sport, Jun 1955, p. 43. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1955/43/xxii-1000-miglia Primary
  53. Motor Sport, "Tommy Sopwith Leads on Points in Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest", with the Mobilgas Economy Run result, Jul 1955, p. 18. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1955/18/tommy-sopwith-leads-on-points-in-motor-sport-brooklands-memorial-trophy-contest Primary
  54. Motor Sport, "Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans" (1955), Jul 1955, p. 15. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1955/15/les-vingt-quatre-heurs-du-mans-1955 Primary
  55. Motor Sport, "Matters of Moment", Jul 1955, p. 13. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1955/13/matters-of-moment-july-1955 Primary
  56. Bill Boddy, "The Rootes Group and Competition Motoring", Motor Sport, Jul 1955, p. 20. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1955/20/the-rootes-group-and-competition-motoring Primary
  57. Motor Sport, "The 13th Scottish Rally", Jul 1955, p. 53. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1955/53/the-13th-scottish-rally Primary
  58. Motor Sport, "Rumblings", Sep 1955, p. 49. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1955/49/rumblings-september-1955 Primary
  59. Motor Sport, "The 1955 Ulster Tourist Trophy", Oct 1955, p. 14. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/october-1955/14/ulster-tourist-trophy-2 Primary
  60. Motor Sport, "Sports and high-performance cars at Earls Court", with the list "Sports Cars Costing Under £1,000 Inclusive of P.T.", Nov 1955, p. 16. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1955/16/sports-and-high-performance-cars-at-earls-court Primary
  61. Bill Boddy, "The Editor Discusses Show Business", Motor Sport, Nov 1955, p. 25. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1955/25/the-editor-discusses-show-business Primary
  62. Bill Boddy, "Sports Cars of the 'Big Five'", Motor Sport, May 1957, p. 15. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1957/15/sports-cars-of-the-big-five Primary
  63. Motor Sport, "How Triumph saved Standard" (letter), Aug 1978, p. 43. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/august-1978/43/how-triumph-saved-standard Reference
  64. Richard Heseltine, "Triumph TR2/3", Motor Sport, Jan 2010, p. 122. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/january-2010/122/by-richard-heseltine Reference
  65. Motor Sport, "TR2's winning duo" (letter), Feb 2010, p. 34. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-2010/34/tr2s-winning-duo Unchecked
  66. Motor Sport, Readers' letters, "Triumph TR2 versus Austin-Healey" (group), May 1955, p. 54; Jul 1955, p. 55; Aug 1955, p. 53; Oct 1955, p. 55. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1955/54/triumph-tr2-versus-austin-healey-2 Primary
  67. Motor Trend, First-drive feature on the TR2 ("the first TR-2 to reach the Coast"), Feb 1954. Primary
  68. Walt Woron, "Driving around with Walt Woron: Triumph TR-2", with "The Story in Figures", Motor Trend, May 1954, pp. 39–41, 51. Primary
  69. Motor Trend, Swallow Doretti road test, Sep 1954. Primary
  70. Motor Trend, Triumph advertisements (group): Standard-Triumph Motor Company Inc. (Apr 1954); Cal Sales Inc. (Aug and Sep 1954), Apr, Aug and Sep 1954. Primary
  71. Motor Trend, Imported-car specification table (pp. 33–34) and price guide (pp. 56–58), Jun 1955, pp. 33–34, 56–58. Primary
  72. Allen Brown, "Ken Richardson" (driver page), oldracingcars.com. oldracingcars.com/driver/Ken_Richardson Reference
  73. Revington TR, "Technical Specification Change Points" (TR2). revingtontr.com/the-tr-series/tr2/technical-specification-change-points Reference
  74. Revington TR, "TR2". revingtontr.com/the-tr-series/tr2 Reference
  75. Graham Robson (essay "15 Years of Evolution"), Triumph TR2 – TR3/3A, TR4/4A – TR5, TR250 1953–1968 Parts & Accessories Catalogue, Rimmer Bros, edn 2.1 (source code TR2512), Part 1. rimmerbros.com/images/PDFs/TR2-5_Part1.pdf Reference
  76. racingsportscars.com, Driver page "Brian McCaldin (GB) – All Results". racingsportscars.com/driver/results/Brian-McCaldin-GB.html Database
  77. racingsportscars.com, Driver page "Jack Fairman (GB) – All Results". racingsportscars.com/driver/results/Jack-Fairman-GB.html Database
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  90. Sports Cars Illustrated, News item: the 1955 Circuit of Ireland, Jul 1955. Primary
  91. Al Brannon, "Trying the Triumph", Sports Cars Illustrated, Nov 1955, pp. 19–21. Primary
  92. Karl Ludvigsen, "Disc Braked TR-3", with the Standard-Triumph advertisement in the same issue, Sports Cars Illustrated, Apr 1957, pp. 16–19, 58. Primary
  93. Richard Olguin and Harriet Olguin, "The TR 3-S At Le Mans", Sports Cars Illustrated, Oct 1959, p. 46ff. Primary
  94. Silverstone Auctions (now Iconic Auctioneers), "1955 Triumph TR2 – PKV 374" (lot 138), NEC Classic Motor Show Sale, 10 Nov 2019, lot 138. iconicauctioneers.auctioneersvault.com/catalogues/nec-classic-motor-show-2019/138 Reference
  95. Standard Motor Club, "Walter Belgrove", 7 Dec 2023. standardmotorclub.org.uk/post/walter-belgrove Reference
  96. Standard-Triumph, Triumph TR2 Workshop Manual, with the TR3 supplement. Primary
  97. The Daily Telegraph, "Harry Webster" (obituary), 9 Feb 2007. telegraph.co.uk Reference
  98. Bruno Dwinger, "TR 2 bis TR 3 B: Geschichte, Typen und Kaufberatung", TR-Register Deutschland, Nov 2008, 10 pp. (PDF). tr-register.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Kaufberatung_Geschichte_TR2_TR3.pdf Reference
  99. TR Register, "Triumph TR2 Buyers Guide" (the TR2 data sheet). tr-register.co.uk/resources/buyers-guide/triumph-tr2 Reference
  100. Bernard Stibling (interviewer), "Triumph du mois: TR2 Francorchamps", Triumph Club de France, Nov 2014. triumph-club-de-france.fr/actualites/triumph-du-mois/1740-2014-11-triumph-tr2-francorchamps Reference
  101. Triumph Motor Company (1945) Ltd, Triumph T.R.2 Sports Car (sales brochure), Rep. 12.53 (Dec 1953). Primary
  102. TR Register, "Buyer Beware: TR6" (2 pp. PDF leaflet). tr-register.co.uk/storage/Pages/tr6-buyer-beware.pdf Reference
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  109. Triumph Sports Owners Association, Triumph Sports Owners Association Newsletter, December 1955, Dec 1955 (vol. I no. 9). vintagetriumphregister.org/tsoa/TSOADec1955.pdf Primary
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  112. Triumph Sports Owners Association, Triumph Sports Owners Association Newsletter, October–November 1957, Oct–Nov 1957 (vol. III nos. 10 & 11). vintagetriumphregister.org/tsoa/TSOAOctNov57.pdf Primary
  113. Triumph Sports Owners Association, Triumph Sports Owners Association Newsletter, January 1958, Jan 1958. vintagetriumphregister.org/tsoa/TSOAJan1958.pdf Primary
  114. Triumph Sports Owners Association, Triumph Sports Owners Association Newsletter, July 1958, Jul 1958 (vol. IV no. 7). vintagetriumphregister.org/tsoa/TSOAJuly58.pdf Primary
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  120. Wikipedia (EN), "Ken Richardson (racing driver)". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Richardson_(racing_driver) Unchecked
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Sources

  • Primarymade at the time, by the maker or by people who were there
  • Referenceserious later work: clubs, specialists, magazines, books
  • Databaseresults and listings, entry by entry
  • Uncheckedencyclopaedias and enthusiast sites: cited beside a good source, named in the sentence, or marked Unchecked
  1. Motor Sport, "Guide To Earls Court" (Triumph, stand 125), Nov 1952, p. 11, p. 11, Triumph, stand 125. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1952/11/guide-to-earls-court Primary
  2. Bill Boddy, "Earls Court Review", Motor Sport, Nov 1952, p. 41, p. 41. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/november-1952/41/earls-court-review Primary
  3. Triumph Motor Company (1945) Ltd, Triumph T.R.2 Sports Car (sales brochure), Rep. 12.53 (Dec 1953). Primary
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