It employed hundreds from across the city
A Liverpool factory that's now been closed for decades was a place where 'everyone got on.' For years, Standard-Triumph, a car manufacturing company, operated in Speke . From 1959, Triumph relocated to the city and built the Triumph Herald, Vitesse, 1300 and others through the 1960s, the ECHO previously reported. The site also became known for manufacturing the famous Triumph TR7 sports car.
'There were four factories and if my mind serves me right, the first was a body in white, the second block was paint, the third block was where they did the Triumph Stag which got shipped down Birmingham way and the final assembly was where they dropped the body onto the engine and gearbox. 'The final assembly for the TR7 which was the block I worked in. If they had any snags on the car they also had a department called the garage that rectified any clawbacks picked up on the line.
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