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Trump again!
« on: 11.05. 2023 12:59 »
Trump Motorcycles

Manufactured by Trump Motors Ltd, Surrey, 1906-1923

The company was founded by Frank McNab and Angus Maitland who used mostly japanese V-twins prior to WWI, and the machines were regularly seen at Brooklands in the late Edwardian era.

Postwar, they also used British Anzani four strokes and Peco two-strokes. Maitland had left the company in 1911, and McNab spent the war years in the Royal Navy where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. After the armistice he was joined by Rob Steward (also ex-RN) and his wife Gwenda, of Morgan fame. All three raced motorcycles at venues including Brooklands, and their customers included the Duke of York, soon to become King of England. His bike, a 998cc Trump-Anzani, was raced by SE Wood, the Duke's chauffeur.

Christopher Renham writes that the Prince of Wales (aka Duke of York) "was a keen motorcyclist and rode a Douglas, later fitting a sidecar for his golf clubs. George V thought it was un royal to use a motorbike and gave him a car with a chauffeur.
I don’t think that was how he was expected to use the chauffeur."

Pictured is Claude Temple on his Trump-Anzani, the machine on which he dominated Brooklands in 1923. He was the husband of Gwenda Temple, also a record-breaking Trump rider.

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