Triumph RR 1000 1930 2 cyl ioe MAG

Manufacturer: Triumph

Model: RR 1000

The businessman Siegfried Bettmann, born in 1863, emigrated to England in 1884, where he founded a factory for bicycles, which would later become the Triumph Motorcycles company. In 1896, Bettmann founded a subsidiary in his hometown of Nuremberg together with investors from the famous trade and industry, which started producing bicycles in 1897. In 1903 the manufacture of motorcycles with built-in Minerva, Fafnir and Peugeot engines began, which was discontinued in 1907 due to excessive demand in the German Reich. In order not to have to continue to compensate for the seasonal fluctuations in sales of bicycles by hiring and firing workers, the manufacturing rights to the "Norica" typewriter were taken over from the Schreibmaschinenwerke Kührt & Riegelmann GmbH in 1909. This line of business quickly became a concrete mainstay for the company. The Norica typewriter was improved by designer Paul Grützmann and launched as a Triumph. It is a four-row typebar typewriter. Bed frames and mattresses were also manufactured. In 1911 the company name was changed to Triumph Werke Nürnberg AG (T.W.N.), in 1913 the parent company in England was separated. Motorcycle production resumed in 1919 with the Knirps model, whose two-stroke engine was copied from the English Triumph Junior. To expand the range with larger displacement models, four-stroke engines were supplied by Triumph England from 1924 to 1929. From the 1930 model year, the company switched to four-stroke engines from Motosacoche (MAG), first as a purchase and later under license. The absolute top model was the 1000 RR. The construction of motorcycles with four-stroke engines ended in 1938.

A total of 6 pieces of this model were made. There are pictures from the RR 1000 sales brochures. The motorcycle was found disassembled in a barn in Potsdam, Germany in 1989 and has found a new home in Thüringen, Germany. A restoration was worked on there until 2018. This Triumph is the last original known to have survived and is equipped with a Bosch horn, Bosch lighting system, Hurth gearbox, Hajot Triplex oil pump, fuel gauge, clock, speedometer, Graezin carburettor and the powerful 1000cc MAG engine.