Edward Turner

Edward Turner ( born January 24, 1901 in London, † August 15, 1973 ) was a British engineer and businessman.

Edward Turner developed his first motorcycle in 1927, which had a 350 cc OHV engine. In 1928 he went to Ariel and received by Jack Sangster free hand in the development of a motorcycle with four cylinder engine, which Ariel Square Four was called. His boss at the time was Val Page. 1930 Edward Turner was briefly unemployed, as Ariel went into bankruptcy, but the company was continued in 1931.

When Jack Sangster took over Triumph in 1936, Edward Turner was chief engineer and manager and thus the successor of Val Page. Edward Turner adjusted the variety of types, retaining only three sports bikes in the program. In July 1937, he conformed to the Triumph Speed ​​Twin front of a powerful motorcycle with two-cylinder engine. It was a sales success for Triumph. In 1941 he designed the spring hub, but was used until the 1948 models of Triumph.

1942 Edward joined Turner after a falling out with Jack Sangster first to BSA, but returned in October 1943 back to triumph again in 1944 and Managing Director. In 1948, he used a self-developed telescopic fork with oil dampening to the new Triumph_Modellen. 1951 Jack Sangster sold Triumph to BSA and was in this company Member of the Supervisory Board. 1956 Jack Sangster became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Triumph / BSA and made Edward Turner head of the automotive division of Triumph / BSA, Ariel, the Daimler Motor Company and Carbo this.

1959 Edward Turner developed an eight-cylinder V-engine with hemispherical combustion chambers, which took 2 ½ Litre V8 sports car use in the Daimler SP250 and Daimler. 1961 Edward Turner was encouraged to abandon his post. Bert Hopwood came from AMC and accepted that Edward Turner Managing Director of Triumph / BSA. In 1963 he designed a 100 cc scooter, the Triumph Tina (T10 ) with automatic transmission. 1967 was Edward Turner his job at Triumph / BSA and stepped back.

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In 1929 he married Edith Webley, she died in 1939 in a traffic accident.

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  • English article from January 26, 2007
  • Motorcycle Classic 1/1995
  • Vehicle Civil Engineering
  • Briton
  • Born 1901
  • Died in 1973
  • Man
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