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Title: 1957 TRN Cornet, CList, Medford MA, $2500
Post by: chuck peterson on April 11, 2022, 06:30:11 AM
TRN? But what does that have to do with Triumph?

https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mcy/d/medford-1957-twn-cornet-motorcycle/7469272638.html


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Title: Re: 1957 TRN Cornet, CList, Medford MA, $2500
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on April 11, 2022, 08:41:05 AM
No, like the ad reads and is cast into the engine cover "TWN". Triumph-Werke Nürnberg
Title: Re: 1957 TRN Cornet, CList, Medford MA, $2500
Post by: spmoto on April 11, 2022, 08:44:48 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_(TWN)
Title: Re: 1957 TRN Cornet, CList, Medford MA, $2500
Post by: SoCV on April 11, 2022, 09:33:13 PM
 TWN slightly predates English Triumph , both as I understand it started by Sigfriend Bettman as bicycle companies, not sure exactly when he sold either of them . The TWN was a well built motorbike .

 OK , Triumph Coventry predates TWN  :grin:

 Dusty
Title: Re: 1957 TRN Cornet, CList, Medford MA, $2500
Post by: chuck peterson on April 12, 2022, 05:22:05 AM
Cool..from Wikipedia

“ Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG or TWN, was a German bicycle and motorcycle company. In 1886, Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph bicycle factory in Coventry, England, and in 1896 he founded a second bicycle factory in his native Nuremberg, Germany, under the same Triumph name. Both factories branched out into making motorcycles: the Coventry factory in 1902 and the Nuremberg factory in 1903.[2]”

Also the Cornet was a split single


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