{"id":458,"date":"2008-09-29T21:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=458"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:25:17","slug":"news-letter-29th-september-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; September 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the Society\u2019s meeting on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September by thanking Pat Dunn for leading the Mushroom Green walk and detailing the 12<sup>th<\/sup> October walk around Haden Hill House and Park, led by Irene Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u2019s speaker was Ray Sturdy, on \u2018The Spirit of Triumph\u2019.\u00a0 In quite a departure from the Society\u2019s recent presentations, Ray took us through the history of Triumph Motorcycles, which started making bicycles in 1886, first in London and then in Coventry.\u00a0 In 1902 Triumph managed to fit an internal combustion engine to a bicycle and thus their first motorcycle was born.\u00a0 Due to the wartime bombing of Coventry the Company moved to Meriden from where its success story continued unabated.\u00a0 During the 1950s Triumph were market leaders and we saw Hollywood stars on the Company\u2019s motorcycles and the specially adapted machine that broke the World Speed Record in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Ray took us through the period of \u2018Mods and Rockers\u2019 before explaining how the Company lost out to Italian scooters and Japanese imports.\u00a0 By the 1970s it looked as though the end was nigh but a move to Hinckley and a re-launch in the 1990s has ensured that Triumph is still with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ryder opened the Society\u2019s meeting on 2nd September by thanking Pat Dunn for leading the Mushroom Green walk and detailing the 12th October walk around Haden Hill House and Park, led by Irene Oliver. The evening\u2019s speaker was Ray Sturdy, on \u2018The Spirit of Triumph\u2019.\u00a0 In quite a departure from the Society\u2019s recent presentations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}