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TR Register celebrates 50 years in 2020
The TR Register celebrates 50 years.
The TR Register has racked up half a century as the leading club for TR sports cars. To celebrate, the club will mark its 50th anniversary this year at the inter-club Triumph Weekend at the Stratfordupon-avon Racecourse on August 14-16, 2020.
On December 19, 1969, Terry Simpson wrote a letter to all those who had responded to letters and advertisements calling for support for TR owners seeking parts, to invite them to what would become the first meeting of a new car club. He and wife Valerie (who would later leave her job to run the club full-time) chose a pub with a large car park on the cross roads of the main road between Oxford and Banbury, a place called Hopcrofts Holt.
Over 50 TRS attended so, that Sunday January 11, 1970, at noon, the TR Register, as we know it today, began.
Still going strong
Fifty years later, the club has gone from strength to strength and now caters for over 6000 owners of Triumph TR sportscars across the world. The TR Register owns in trust a significant part of the marque’s history in the form of TS2, the first right hand drive Triumph TR2 built. The club also has over 53 local groups across the UK and regional chapters in just about every country in the world. As a result of the TR Register’s hard work over the past 50 years to preserve the marque, the TR sports car models have one of the best parts supplies and backup of any classic car range.
In the know
Furthermore, through its team of 10 model registrars, the club offers unparalleled knowledge of Triumph TRS as well as an exhaustive set of records and archives on each of the factory-built models and derivatives alike. Find out more via tr-register. co.uk.