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  • The Classic MotorCycle

    Readers’ Letters

    Jan 06, 2021 4 minutes

    Survival story

    Looking through the January 2021 issue of TCM, I paused to look at the various photos from October’s Newark autojumble. Photograph eight caused me to do an astonished double-take – not because a canted engine in a Triton is rather unusual, but because I recognised the actual bike.

    The owner and architect of the Triton back in the 1960s was a good friend of mine. His name is Chris Dawson, hailing from Hull in East Yorkshire. Incredibly, the bike at Newark is still easily recognisable from photographs I took of it way back then, over 50 years ago, some of them in Switzerland.

    Chris was studying civil engineering at College in Brighton during the 1960s

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