Talk:Triumph Roadster

A fact from Triumph Roadster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Triumph 1800 Roadster's body was built from aluminium using press tools from the Mosquito bomber fuselage?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Why has this appeared on the main page without metric units? bobblewik 11:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aluminium press tools from Mosquito production??[edit]

That sounds weird to me, as the Mosquito was famous for being constructed almost entirely out of wood. --JCRitter 12:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Triumph 2000 Roadster front suspension[edit]

Neither Graham Robson's book The Book of the Standard Motor Company nor the Automotive Quarterly article "Trundling Along With Triumph" by Richard M. Langworth mentions any change of front suspension with the change from the 1800 Roadster to the 2000 Roadster; both works list the drivetrain change (engine, transmission and, according to Robson but not Langworth, rear axle) as the only major change. However, both Mike Lawrence's book A to Z of Sports Cars 1945-1990 and Culshaw and Horrobin's The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895 - 1975 state that the 2000 Roadster had coil spring front suspension as opposed to the 1800's transverse leaf spring. Lawrence goes further to state that the 2000 had a front anti-roll bar as well.

I note that the works that mention the coil spring suspension have wider scopes than those that do not, which are specifically about Standard and Triumph respectively. It is possible that a rumour or an erroneous press release might be harder to fool those looking at a topic in greater depth, which is why I have not added this information to the article.

Is there any work on Triumph in general or the Triumph Roadster in particular that states definitively (or, better yet, has photographs showing) that the 2000 Roadsters had coil springs?

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]