Jon,
November 14, 1999
As today is the anniversary (59th I think) of the bombing of Coventry at the
hands of the Luftwaffe, the question has crossed my mind about how the
British auto industry, and Triumph Standard in particular, managed to
recover from what I understand was almost total destruction. How long was
it before automobiles were next produced there?
As a vintage TR racer, I too would love to see competition-related articles,
but history always makes for compelling reading.
Best regards,
Roger Beasley
Cape Coral, Florida
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Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: English Channel
> Just for reference and FWIW, Kent has asked me to contribute
> a regular column to English Channel looking at matters
> Triumph from the home side of the big pond. While I know
> this post is probably going to mostly enthusiastic Triumph
> 'racers' you will know that there are others within VTR who
> are not quite such enthusiastic track participants.With that
> in view, material must inevitably not be totally performance
> and racing oriented and there are (as yet unknown)
> constraints on word count.
> Unfortunately, my first piece of 'copy' for Kent arrived
> after his print deadline so the material he'll use will be
> something of a general Triumph scene-setter. It will greatly
> assist me if those of you who read this might be able to
> give me some sort of feed back on the sort of material you'd
> like to see appearing? Remember, that "young Mr. Richardson"
> and I are in very close contact with one another and this is
> another potential material source or a possible sounding
> board for the further evaluation of points you'd like to
> know about.
>
> John Macartney
>
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