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OUT IN THE SHED

A World War 1 veteran

30th annual Taree & District Classic and Vintage Motorcycle Club rally I spotted a veteran Triumph. It was a 1916 model H Triumph of which some 30,000 were produced for military service during the Great War 1914 – 1918. Since 1910 Triumph had used the slogan “Trusty Triumph” and by the end of the war the troops referred to the model H as “The Trusty”. Fortunately

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