09-27-2011, 11:27 AM
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Here's another article from the same e-mail I got for Hagerty:
Rare Find
Discovered in its original shipping crate, a 1957 Triumph TRW sold at Pebble Beach last month for $34,500. HVA’s Canada correspondent, Nigel Matthews, reports on this amazing find and provides an interesting quandary in our Facebook question of the month.
 The Triumph motorcycle company began designing its 500cc TRW model in 1943, but by the time the bike went into production World War II was over and the British military had a surplus of motorcycles used by dispatch riders.
The production run of the TRW began in 1950 and continued until 1964, producing some 15,939 examples. A number of those were used by the military in countries around the world, including, Canada, Germany, Holland, Pakistan and South Africa.
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