The Triumph TR5 was a classic British sports Roadster of the late 1960s. It was built to follow the very similar TR4 by the Triumph Motor Company ( by this Time part of BMC ).
The Triumph Motor Co. itself has been around for a long time. It was started by Siegfried Bettmann , importing continental bicycles into London in1885. With his partner Moritz Schulte they began making Triumph cycles in Coventry soon after and took on the trading name of Triumph.
The company had a really bad spell before WW2 and was put into receivership in 1939. What was left of the business after 1945 was bought by the Standard Motor Company. It was in the early 1950s that they decided to use the Standard brand for their Saloons cars and the Triumph brand for their Sports cars ( or Roadsters). The Triumph Division used the naming convention of TR ( triumph Roadster) plus a number for their series of cars. The first of these was the TR2.
In the Great amalgamation period for the UK Car Industry, Standard Triumph was bought by Leyland Motors in 1960, which became BLMC in 1968.
By the time the Triumph roadsters had got to the TR5, the designer ( Michelotti ) had just about reached the prime of this model of car. It was followed by the TR6 and TR7 but these were not seen as anything like the peak in the 1967-68 TR5 era. The 2.5 litre engine kept its pace good for the day - it got you along at up to 118mph.
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