The Classic MotorCycle

1939 Tiger 100 twin

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While the Bonneville didn’t actually reach production until late 1958, it would never have come to fruition were it not for Edward Turner’s 5T Speed Twin, first shown to the public 21 years earlier at the Olympia Motorcycle Show in 1937.

This was just one year after Turner started working at

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