Triumph Motorcycles Model H 1916
This Triumph Model H formerly belonged to and was restored by the late Hubert Oliver Twitchen, known to friends and contempories as ‘Twitch’.
Hubert Twitchen was highly influential within veteran and vintage motorcycling circles from the early 1940’s onward. He later organised the Sunbeam MCCs veteran register. A civil servant with an encyclopedic knowledge of older motorcycles, he set new standards for the restoration of machines to original condition.
This model H was Twitch’s second to last restoration before he died in 1976. The engine number 55257 CTP indicates a unit of 1916 manufacture, and Twitch is on record as having stated that he understood that this Triumph had remained in Army service after WW1 and had been rebuilt (probably by the factory) around a replacement frame circa 1923, hence the word ‘renovated’ within the tank transfer.
Brian Verrall acquired the Triumph from John Comerford in 2000 (both well-known vintage collectors) and in 2002 it was featured in the Classic Motorcycle Magazines August edition.
We are extremely fortunate to have one of the highly esteemed ‘Twitches’ bikes in the collection.