Triumph TRW Motorcycles

[Dave Stapleton]

Originally Posted by edstorey

That is a slick looking motorcycle, although sadly most of the data on these bikes is no longer available and the search is even more difficult without a CFR number. More than likely your bike sat crated in an Ordnance Depot and was never issued to a unit.

Hi, That's a shame, here in the UK the Army still holds all the records for military vehicle going back to WW2 and the RAF vehicle records are held at the RAF Museum, both sets fully accessible to the public. I have one lead that a batch 21 motorcycles depatched in january 1957 went to London, Ontario possibly to an Ordnance Depot but it was anecdotal and I am still tring to identify the location and depot.

[Ed Storey]

The landfills around Ottawa are full of good records. Mostly boring files about vehicles and equipment, the stuff no-one would be interested in. Also a large number of equipment files have to be declassified, which there is no urgency to do.

[Robin Craig]

Welcome to the group Dave,

saw you appear on the other medium recently, wondered when you would show up here. If Ed says its hard for the reasons stated, its sad to say but the Oracle has spoken.

Th CFR about which he speaks is a specific series of numbers that hopefully you can find somewhere.

Welcome in

[Dave Stapleton]

Originally Posted by edstorey

The landfills around Ottawa are full of good records. Mostly boring files about vehicles and equipment, the stuff no-one would be interested in. Also a large number of equipment files have to be declassified, which there is no urgency to do.

Hi Ed

Thanks for your interest, I guess it will be difficult to trace this bikes history but you have to try, you never know what might turn up.