The Triumph Of The Triumph - By: Alan Liptrot, 2009-07-10

History sometimes throws up some strange truths, no more so than that which tells us, that the most British of motorcycles owes its existence to a German. One Seigfried Bettmann, an immigrant from Nuremberg, began a company named the "S.Betmann and Co. Import Export Agency" in London in 1884. As an ambitious 20 year old, Bettmann bought and sold bicycles and imported sewing machines from Germany.

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