TRIUMPH TRIDENT 1969 T150 POSTER - A2 SIZE - NEW
Description
A quality poster A2 Size of the 1969 Trident - this image from a promotion in the Triumph French market.
The original P1 Trident prototype was built in 1965 after the design was sketched up by Bert Hopwood & Doug Hele as early as 1963. Sadly the powers at be took 3 years to get the bike ready for production.
In the USA the worlds first Superbike with sister BSA Rocket 3 machine, were not popular due to their slab sided and heavy look so much so that Triumph designed a beauty kit for dealers to fit that consisted of a new teardrop tank with trim, plus mufflers, decals etc. Originally launched in August 68 in the USA approx 3,943 were built while in 1970 only 287 were produced. The factory were stamping the 1969 models fitted with the beauty kit as T150T models, for sale as 1970 models.
In NZ a small number of the early models were bought in by W White but after circa 1970 Colemans became the sole BSA-Triumph Distributors for New Zealand. This enable a greater number of machines to be imported and by 1972 Tridents started to become popular. A batch of T150T models were sent over, a number of the 1972 models and in 1973 the front disc brake T150V had arrived. Rod Coleman said to me, the demand for the Tridents was so strong, we just could never get enough of them.
The 1969 T150 Trident is highly sort after around the world these days.
TRIDENT T150 T150V T160 ROCKET 3 DOUG HELE BSA NORTON ROB NORTH T150T