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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: marko on September 13, 2006, 07:43:07 PM

Title: unknown production year
Post by: marko on September 13, 2006, 07:43:07 PM

hello,
i have a triumph model c-350
and i do not have a clue of the production year,
can somebody help me to get a production date
from triumph??
.
thanks in advance

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on September 13, 2006, 07:53:34 PM

You have not given any engine or frame numbers or any other information and so makes any year identification very difficult.
Please can we have some information?  

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: marko on September 13, 2006, 09:35:53 PM

sorry, the engine number reads: 800175

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on September 13, 2006, 10:49:08 PM

Are there any prefix letters stamped with the engine number?

Is this bike a twin cylinder model?


And does the bike look like this?:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/pages/Triumph-3T-58.htm

Or more like this?:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/pages/Triumph-3T-Delux-49.htm

Or is it single cylinder like this?:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/pages/Triumph-3H-38.htm

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: marko on September 14, 2006, 03:38:25 PM

thanks.
the engine and the frame numbers are the same.
the bike is very similar to the motorbike on the
photo http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/pages/Tr iumph-3H-38.htm

i will get a photo an post it.

thanks.

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: marko on September 14, 2006, 03:39:04 PM

the engine is an OHC.

reverting asap with the photo

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: marko on September 15, 2006, 05:00:47 PM

THE PHOTO SI TOO BIG.
IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME I WILL EMAIL YOU THE PHOTO

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on September 15, 2006, 05:15:17 PM

Marko,

If you e-mail photos to me <temp.mailbox690@ntlworld.com> I will resize them and post them here for you.

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: hclo on September 15, 2006, 05:23:51 PM

Hello
Try: http://www.imageshack.us/
Find your photo and put in the window
then "host-it"
Copy the entire line thumbnail.... forum 1 into your mail
that's all
Henri

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on September 18, 2006, 09:59:12 PM

Hello marko,

Thank you for sending the photos of your motorcycle.

However I am not able to help you with any model or date information as I now realise that your motorcycle is a German (TWN) 'Triumph' and not British manufactured one, although it certainly looks very good and would appear to be OHV rather than OHC.

I include some links where you may be able to find further information:
http://www.twn-ig.de/

http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/triumph-twn.htm

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on September 18, 2006, 10:26:39 PM

These are the photos of Marko's Triumph:


(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b73/Les3066/image.jpg)

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: L.A.B. on July 06, 2008, 04:53:21 PM

I know this is an old thread (from Sept 13th 2006).

It would appear that Marko's Triumph is apparently a rare 1929 BRITISH 500cc CTT model.

http://veteran-motorcycle.com/triumphctt.htm

Title: Re: unknown production year
Post by: TriSpec on July 27, 2008, 05:11:39 PM

Despite what has been said, it's a British made 348cc ohv Model CO. Late 1928 or early 1929. If you mail me at peter@triumph.gen.nz with the three letters following the engine number on the crankcase and the frame number (top of headstock viewed from the front) I'll date to the month and send a list of the Triumph booklets I have written as one covers this model. (The 19 booklets written cover all Triumph models from 1902 to 1934, less the 1934 Val Page models, and I'm part way through a series covering the definitive history of Triumph with previously unpublished info and pictures.)
Cheers, Peter (Triumph specialist for the VMCC of Britain)