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| | Classic Car: Triumph Herald - Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Triumph, now remembered primarily for its rugged sports cars of the TR series 2 to 6 (not 7 and 8), was between the wars a firm that had a worthy reputation for over-bodied and underpowered family cars of only 1,087 and 1,232ccs, rivals for Rover and Riley rather than Austin and Morris. |
 | | Herald was a Standard name in line with Vanguard, Ensign, Pennant and, indeed, Flying Standard, as the marque was briefly known in the later 1930s. |
 | | The Herald too died that year, and the very last of the half million, the 13/60, was a car worth having but far too late, the capacity of the engine raised to 1,296ccs, its power 61bhp at 5,000rpm, but its top gear so low that still it deafened its occupants at motorway speeds. |
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