Advertizing Triumph Parts
The 1978 Andover Norton promotion leaflet shows Triumph Trident and Norton parts on its cover.
Triumph parts were sold off and not re-made as the rights to manufacture and distribution were acquired by the Meriden Triumph Workers Cooperative.
When that cooperative went bankrupt in 1983/84 and its assets sold off the owner of Andover Norton at the time, Mike Jackson, bought all parts remaining in the Meriden factory. They were stored in a WW2 hangar near the Shenstone Norton factory.
I remember going there with the Norton spares manager of the era, Richard Negus, and virtually climbing towers of pallet cages containing half-finished castings and finished parts.
The reason why we went there was that I had been dealing in Triumph parts since 1977. I bought some of these ex-Meriden parts off Norton Motors Ltd who had agreed to distribute them for Andover Norton.
Our experience with Triumph parts hence goes back four decades!