John Macartney wrote:
> Friends
> Assistance, guesstimates, inklings, notions - and others of that ilk.
> I have been asked to carry out a survey of likely Triumph Club membership
>worldwide. At
> best, this could be something of a finger in the air job but it needs to be
>quantified.
> Any input you can provide will be gratefully appreciated. As a guide, Triumph
>clubs in the
> UK collectively have about 36,000 members, but an indeterminate number are
>not UK
> residents - but this doesn't matter. Equally, there are indications that a
>further 30%-40%
> are Triumph owners but not members of any club. This suggests that current
>Triumph
> ownership in the UK could be anything up to 50,000 people. Many may not be
>enthusiasts but
> just driving them as elderly daily transport.
> I need to have everyone's best estimate of total Triumph enthusiasts - club
>members,
> non-club members and daily drivers for
>
> Australia
> Canada
> Europe
> New Zealand
> South Africa
> USA
>
> Counting on you counting on your fingers
>
> Jonmac
Jonmac and all -
The British must be a nation of joiners. The Trumph club membership is matched
by the Jaguar
Clubs. There are three clubs in England, two with 15,000+ members each and the
other with
several thousand. The Jaguar Clubs of North America, with 52 individual
affiliated clubs,
totals only 6,000. Yet, as with Triumph and MG, the vast majority of Jaguar
sports cars were
sold here.
Even more interesting, car clubs in other countries maintain club premises and
even own their
own buildings. Some have pubs! Does anyone know of a US car club that meets in
its own
building?
Most of the ones I belong to turn out enough people at meetings to comfortable
fill somebody's
living rom and that's about it. It's a different world.
Mike Cook
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