[TR] Standard Triumph on YouTube

[John Macartney]

Maybe this has already been covered in earlier posts to the lists and I missed them over the years 
I've been subscribing. But following a casual wander around YouTube, I've found some archive footage 
of the factory in Coventry if anyone's interested?
The first film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN4qwW5ceGU shows the assembly line at Canley when the 
Standard 8 saloon (aka Triumph 10) was being made. This was made a good five years before the new 
Assembly Hall was commissioned in 1959 to build the Herald as its first customer. Although the film 
doesn't show it, the sidescreen TR assembly line was opposite the one for the 8. Sorry, TR owners 
but you won't see any as this is obviously a PR production for the 8. However you will see someone 
that many knew in recent years as a Triumph World columnist and that's Robin Penrice. Robin is the 
younger of the two boys in school uniform with his brother Peter and their Mum, Gwen Penrice. 
Robin's Dad, Ivor Penrice was Publicity Manager at Standard and this is obviously why his house and 
family took part. Low budget, see? The shoot was outside their home near Coventry, as are the shots 
of the car being driven along a very well-known road between Coventry and Kenilworth. I can't 
currently identify the driver, though his face is familiar.
While I doubt anyone on these lists will have any interest in Ferguson tractors (I wish I still had 
mine to play with) the next film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEgSB8qjRs&NR=1 shows Standard-Triumphs 
other Coventry factory at Banner Lane on the western outskirts of the city. Built in two years just 
before WW2 to make aircraft engines this later became Massey Ferguson's European tractor plant. It 
has entirely vanished and is now a housing estate!
Enjoy!

Jonmac