Many thanks for your replies to the Triumph Trivia Question: Sir John
Black, then head of Triumph Cars, was injured in an auto accident in the
Fall of 1953, shortly before he resigned his post in the company. What car
was he in at the time and who was the driver?
My friend Hardy, who put this question to me, and who apparently is more
skilled in racing and preparing the cars than in their history, was most
appreciative, as he had guessed, incorrectly as it turns out, that the car
was
an early TR2 prototype. In case you have lost sleep puzzling over this
critical issue, here then, based on your replies, is the answer (The most
comprehensive of which is thanks to "Chris Kent Kantarjiev" who cited the
following from p 179 of the 1988 edition of Graham Robson's "Complete
Story"):
"... Sir John was badly knocked about in a car crash, and the company
drifted for weeks while he recovered. It was actually a prototype Swallow
Doretti sports car, with Ken Richardson driving, in which Sir John was
hurt, and the accident, which involved another car, took place right outside
the main gate at the Banner Lane factory."
Jim Gregory
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