TriumphTR7

Triumph TR7 Books and Sources

The histories, club guides, factory papers, magazines, debates and results tables behind every page of this site, with what each is good for and how far to trust it.

A dark blue wedge-shaped coupé seen from behind, parked on brick paving in a street.
The tail of a dark blue TR7 coupé in Voorschoten, the Netherlands, in April 2021, TRIUMPH and TR7 lettered across it.louisznl, CC BY 2.0

Two later histories carry most of this site's story: AROnline's development story of the TR7, with its pages on the Lynx and the Broadside, and Aaron Severson's five-page history of the TR7 and TR8 on Ate Up With Motor, of 2012, which names its own sources. The TR Drivers Club's guide to the cars' numbers, which reproduces BL's production tables, is the backbone of the figures. Every source the pages cite is in the list below, each with its address where it has one, and each page lists its own sources at its foot.⁠1​2​3

How the sources are graded

The label beside each source grades the kind of source it is, not every line in it. Primary sources were made at the time by the maker or by people who were there: BL's own papers, Motor Sport's tests and reports, the debates in Parliament and the American importer's owners' newsletter. Reference sources are later work done with care: the clubs' guides and registers, and the historians' articles. Database sources, such as the racingsportscars results tables, are read one entry at a time.

Unchecked sources are leads: Wikipedia, and sites that seldom name their own sources. A page uses one only beside a stronger source, or by naming it in the sentence, and never for a figure on its own.⁠4​5​6​7

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The maker's own papers

Three of British Leyland's own documents were read: the press release on the British drophead's structure and specification that Rover Triumph issued for its British launch in March 1980, which gives the factory's figures for both bodies; a Canadian brochure for the convertible, with engine figures of its own; and a BL Motorsport memo of December 1980 on a TR8 development car, which the Triumph Wedge Owners Association publishes. The specifications rest on the first two, beside the road tests.⁠8​9​10

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Magazines of the time

Motor Sport's free online archive is the main period record. Clive Richardson wrote its three looks at the coupé, the American preview of February 1975, the British launch of June 1976 and the Canley car of June 1979, and C.R. its report on the drophead in April 1980; Jeremy Walton wrote its rally features, among them the long report on the V8 of September 1978, and the magazine's rally reports and news pages follow the works team through 1976–81. Road & Track's first drive of the convertible and the TR8, in England in 1979, was read in the first page of the TR Drivers Club's reprint, the only one still online, and the American importer's newsletter gives the first race results of 1976. The road tests page lists every period test known and what of each was read.⁠11​4​12​13​14​15​16​17​18​19​20​21​22

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Parliament and broadcasting

Hansard records the Commons exchanges of 16 and 27 February 1978 on the closure of Speke No. 2, and BBC Liverpool's account of 2009, which quotes the BBC's Nationwide of 1978, sets Speke workers' words beside the industrial journalist Graham Turner's. The factories page rests on them.⁠23​24​25

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Clubs and their records

The TR Drivers Club supplied more of the research than any other single source: its identification and production guide, its register of the 20 works rally registrations with a page for each car, Graham Fountain's account of the Sprints and the club's survey of them, its articles on the Jubilee, the Le Mans car and the TR7s at Gaydon, and Simon Godrich's owner's checklist. The TR Register's guide to the TR7 and TR8 adds facts, performance figures and answers to owners' questions. Michael Hart's count of the Spider's build cards, published by the Triumph Wedge Owners Association, and Canley Classics' records of BL's experimental cars complete the list.⁠3​5​26​27​28​29​30​31​32​33​34

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Later accounts

Beyond the two histories, AROnline's obituary of Harris Mann reproduces his interview of 2005, and Motor Sport published John Davenport's tribute to Tony Pond in 2002 and a long interview with Fred Gallagher in 2019. CAR's obituary of 2010 gives Spen King's career. Graham Robson's history of the works Triumphs is cited only as Wikipedia quotes it, and IMCDb's list of screen appearances was read through an archived copy.⁠1​35​36​37​2​38​39​40​41​42

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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. Edgardo Michelotti, "Giovanni Michelotti. L'uomo e il designer" (Monografia AISA 134), AISA – Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Automobile (Società Editrice Il Cammello, Turin), Turin, 25 Nov 2023; web edition. aisastoryauto.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/aisa134web.pdf Reference
  2. AROnline, "Archive: The Triumph TR7 is launched", The Times and Daily Express, 20 Jan 1975. aronline.co.uk/cars/triumph/tr7-tr8/archive-the-triumph-tr7-is-launched Primary
  3. Chris Cowin, "History: Exporting British cars to Canada – Part Two: The British Leyland Years", AROnline, 19 Aug 2025. aronline.co.uk/history/exporting-british-cars-to-canada-pt2 Reference
  4. Declan Berridge, "The converters: Crayford Engineering TR7 Tracer", AROnline, 27 Mar 2023. aronline.co.uk/the-converters/crayford/tr7-tracer Reference
  5. Richard Gunn, "Obituary: Harris Mann 1938–2023", AROnline, 15 Aug 2023. aronline.co.uk/people/harris-mann Reference
  6. Keith Adams, "History: Secret Rover and Triumph model plans (1978–1987)", AROnline, 15 May 2024. aronline.co.uk/history/rover-triumph-secret-model-plans Reference
  7. Keith Adams, "Sheaffer TRZ", AROnline, 5 Aug 2011. aronline.co.uk/cars/triumph/tr7-tr8/sheaffer-trz Reference
  8. Keith Adams, "The Cars: Triumph TR7/TR8 development story", AROnline, updated 8 Feb 2024. aronline.co.uk/cars/triumph/tr7-tr8/bullet-development-story Reference
  9. Keith Adams, "Concepts and Prototypes: Triumph Broadside (1979–1981)", AROnline, 2 Feb 2024. aronline.co.uk/cars/triumph/tr7-tr8/triumph-broadside Reference
  10. Keith Adams, "Concepts and Prototypes: Triumph Lynx (1972–1978)", AROnline, 20 Jan 2024. aronline.co.uk/cars/triumph/tr7-tr8/triumph-lynx Reference
  11. Chris Cowin, "History: Exporting British cars to the USA – Part Two", AROnline, 31 May 2025, updated 21 Oct 2025. aronline.co.uk/history/exporting-british-cars-to-the-usa-part2 Reference
  12. Aaron Severson, "Grandfather's Ax: The Many Evolutions of the Triumph TR4, Part 2: TR5, TR250, and TR6", Ate Up With Motor, 7 Nov 2012. ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/triumph-tr5-tr250-tr6/view-all Reference
  13. Aaron Severson, "Grandfather's Ax: The Many Evolutions of the Triumph TR4, Part 1: TR4 and TR4A", Ate Up With Motor, 22 Oct 2012. ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/triumph-tr4-tr4a/view-all Reference
  14. John Miles, "Miles Behind the Wheel: America's TR8", Autocar, 1979 (May, according to triumphtr8.com). triumphtr8.com/tr8-press-articles-and-cuttings Primary
  15. Aaron Severson, "Way of the Wedge: The Triumph TR7 and TR8", Ate Up With Motor, 5 Feb 2012, pp. 1–5. ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/triumph-tr7-tr8 Reference
  16. BBC Liverpool, "The failure of Triumph in Speke", 8 Dec 2009. news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpool/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8401000/8401200.stm Reference
  17. Jackie Jouret and Helmut Werb, "507s star at Pebble Beach", Bimmer, No. 119, 25 Oct 2013. bimmer-mag.com/issues/119/articles/507s-star-at-pebble-beach Reference
  18. R. Hurdwell (BL Motorsport, Abingdon), "TR8 Modifications" (memo, 4 pp.), BL Motorsport (via the Triumph Wedge Owners Association), 16 Dec 1980. triumphwedgeowners.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Hurdwell-Memo.pdf Primary
  19. Jaguar Rover Triumph Canada (Burlington, Ontario), Triumph TR7 Convertible (sales brochure), Canada, c. 1979–80. archive.org/details/triumph-tr7-convertible-car-brochure Primary
  20. Rover Triumph (reprinted by the TR Drivers Club), "Triumph TR7 Drophead: Structural Engineering and Specifications" (press release), Press release, for release 2 Mar 1980. trdrivers.com/articles21/tr7dhcengspec1.html Primary
  21. British Motor Museum (BMIHT), "Heritage Certificates". britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive/heritage-certificates Primary
  22. BMW Group Classic (BMW Classic blog), "60 Years of Pure Temptation", 2015. presstopic.bmwgroup.com/en/bmw-classic-blog/text/60-YEARS-OF-PURE-TEMPTATION-4484.html Primary
  23. Michael Lamm, "1st Drive in the Triumph TR8", British Car, Feb–Mar 1999, pp. 46–48. triumphtr8.com/tr8-press-articles-and-cuttings Reference
  24. Canley Classics, "The Fastest Ever Triumph". canleyclassics.com/api/archive/article/?q=the-fastest-ever-triumph Reference
  25. Canley Classics, "TR7 & TR8 Experimental Records". canleyclassics.com/api/archive/article/?q=tr7-tr8-experimental-records Primary
  26. Dennis May, "Technical Report" on the TR-4 (cover story), Car and Driver, Oct 1961, pp. 19–23. archive.org/details/sim_car-and-driver_1961-10_7 Primary
  27. Don Sherman, "Triumph TR8" (road test), Car and Driver, Aug 1980, pp. 36–40. triumphtr8.com/tr8-press-articles-and-cuttings Primary
  28. Tim Pollard, "Spen King, Range Rover creator (1925–2010)", CAR, 2010. carmagazine.co.uk/features/opinion/tim-pollard/remembered-spen-king-range-rover-creator-1925-2010 Reference
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  34. House of Commons (Hansard), "British Leyland", HC Deb 16 Feb 1978, vol 944 cc680–2. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/feb/16/british-leyland Primary
  35. House of Commons (Hansard), "British Leyland", HC Deb 27 Feb 1978, vol 945 cc14–9. api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/feb/27/british-leyland Primary
  36. IMCDb.org (Controgest SRL), "Triumph TR7 in movies and TV series". imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Triumph_model-TR7.html Reference
  37. Giles Chapman, "Harry Webster" (obituary), The Independent, 17 Feb 2007. independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-webster-6228822.html Reference
  38. Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, "1974 Jaguar E-Type Group 44 Racing Car". jaguarheritage.com/vehicle-collection/1974-jaguar-e-type-group-44-racing-car Primary
  39. G. William Krause, The Illustrated History of Triumph Sports and Racing Cars, CarTech, 2017. static.summitracing.com/global/images/technicalarticles/sad-ct596.pdf Reference
  40. Lancaster Insurance, "The Triumph TR8 remembered", 12 May 2022. lancasterinsurance.co.uk/news/2022/may/12/the-triumph-tr8-remembered Unchecked
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  42. "Johnny Oversteer", "Almost Famous – Triumph TR5 Ginevra", Moss Motoring, 25 Mar 2015. mossmotoring.com/almost-famous-triumph-tr5-ginevra Reference
  43. Moss Motoring, "Press Release: British Sports Car Hall of Fame", 20 Mar 2017. mossmotoring.com Reference
  44. Graham Robson, "Harry Webster – My Technical Mentor", Moss Motoring (Moss Motors), 12 Jun 2019. mossmotoring.com/harry-webster-my-technical-mentor Reference
  45. Graham Robson, "Alick Dick: Triumph's Managing Director 1954–1961", Moss Motoring, 18 Jan 2021. mossmotoring.com Reference
  46. Graham Robson, "One Design, Many Derivatives", Moss Motoring, 26 Oct 2022. mossmotoring.com Reference
  47. John Davenport, "Coupe des Alpes", Motor Sport, Sep 1965. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1965/30/motor-sport-147 Primary
  48. Alan Henry, "Sports round-up", Motor Sport, Dec 1974, p. 32. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1974/32/sports-round Primary
  49. Clive Richardson ("C.R."), "The TR7 makes a quiet British bow", Motor Sport, Feb 1975, p. 30. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-1975/30/the-tr7-makesa-quiet-british-bow Primary
  50. Motor Sport, "Around and About, December 1975", Dec 1975, p. 32. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1975/32/around-and-about-december-1975 Primary
  51. Jeremy Walton, "Tony Pond" (interview), Motor Sport, Jan 1976, p. 21. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/january-1976/21/tony-pond Primary
  52. Jeremy Walton ("J.W."), "Rallying TR7", Motor Sport, May 1976, p. 76. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1976/76/rallying-tr7 Primary
  53. Clive Richardson ("C.R."), "Triumph TR7: sports car or two-seater saloon?", Motor Sport, Jun 1976, p. 63. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1976/63/triumpuh-tr7 Primary
  54. Jeremy Walton ("J.W."), "It's a long way to Ajaccio…", Motor Sport, Jan 1978, p. 55. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/january-1978/55/it-s-long-way-ajacciao-long-long-way-tow Primary
  55. Motor Sport, "MG versus Triumph sales" (letter), Mar 1978, p. 92. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-1978/92/mg-versus-triumph-sales Unchecked
  56. Jeremy Walton, "Abingdon finds a new Healey called Triumph", Motor Sport, Sep 1978, p. 30. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1978/30/abingdon-finds-new-healey-called-triumph Primary
  57. Clive Richardson ("C.R."), "The Triumph TR7", Motor Sport, Jun 1979, p. 58. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/june-1979/58/the-triumph-tr7 Primary
  58. "C.R.", "The Triumph TR7 Drophead" ("Sunshine Seven"), Motor Sport, Apr 1980, p. 35. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1980/35/sunshine-seven Primary
  59. Jeremy Walton ("J.W."), "A TR7 for Le Mans", Motor Sport, May 1980, p. 37. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1980/37/tr7-le-mans Primary
  60. John Davenport, "Public face, private man" (Tony Pond), Motor Sport, Apr 2002, p. 60. motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-2002/60/public-face-private-man Reference
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  123. Triumph Sports Owners Association, Triumph Sports Owners Association Newsletter, May–June 1976, May–Jun 1976. vintagetriumphregister.org/tsoa/TSOAMayJun76.pdf Primary
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