TriumphTalk

Take most any current brand or model of car or motorcycle, fit new tires, fill your pockets with money for gasoline, food ...

On 15 March 2002, the Triumph motorcycle factory, located in Hinckley, between Leicester and Coventry, England, suffered ...

THE WILD ONE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
by Laurie “Rocky” Rockwell

The wild one (1953) is the granddaddy ...

His real name was Charles Hardin Holley, but the singer and musician from Lubbock, Texas was known to his millions of adoring fans as Buddy Holly. His last name was mis-spelled "Holly" on a music contract and from then on Buddy spelled it that way. Although his career at the top of the rock and roll heap lasted only about two years, Buddy Holly and the Crickets produced a series of number one hit records that stand the test of time in ...

Actor, Steve McQueen, has become an iconic Hollywood figure who died at the relatively young age of 50. The years of his youth were rough and tumble, but he packed a lifetime of high living into his adult life.

Steven Terrence McQueen was born into poor circumstances on 24 March 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana, U.S.A., a suburb of the city of Indianapolis. McQueen’s mother was a teenage alcoholic and his father was a stunt pilot with a flying circus who abandoned the two of them when he was just a few months old.

Destitute and unable to care for her son, the toddler ...

JOHN BLOOR, A MAN OF VISION
by Rocky

In 1983, John Bloor was looking at a boarded up factory in the village of Meriden located in a green belt between the midlands cities of Birmingham and Coventry, England. The millionaire land developer was looking for his next building site, but what he found instead was an idea for a new business.

The decrepit ...