Triumph Renown

For the serious investor desiring a guaranteed Concours Champion here is a world-class motorcar. Purchased by the last owner in 1982 who treated it to a no expense spared open cheque book restoration, it is estimated that the cost of a professional rebuild to this exacting standard today would be in excess of £80, 000. Need I say more?

Exceptionally rare model, with reputedly less than 100 known survivors, but I doubt any others in this league, it is far better I suspect then when it left the factory so any trial or inspection welcomed. It is also the quietest classic I have ever driven. Ready for immediate use, in fact I would have no reticence to jumping in it right away and setting forth to sunnier climes.

Resplendent coachwork in Jade Green Metallic with buckskin hide interior and polished burr walnut, unusually optioned with Electric Overdrive. Rather than fill columns with more superlatives will let the attached pictures speak for themselves as they illustrate the meticulous attention to detail throughout.

Car located in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire. If more info required, call John on number above.

Comes with V5, old buff logbook, petrol ration coupon booklet, owner's handbooks, full set of original factory tools under bonnet and inside boot lid compartment.

Transport arranged if required at £1. 70 pr/ mile, one way only charged. Usual Dealer facilities.

See our website Link above for Short Vid of the Renown (not quite up to Cecil B. DeMille standards, but hope you get the picture)


History of Razor or Knife Edge Styling.

In the late 1930s when the overall shape of cars was tending to be more rounded, and streamlining was in fashion, there was also a move in a very different direction, towards sharper edges or razor edge styling - by certain English coachbuilders. This design concept was thought more elegant by some compared with mass-produced cars.

Hand-built bodies, mostly from Aluminum, due to the shortage of steel post-war, were fitted to luxury makes like the Triumph Renown, 1a quintessentially British design which looks a bit like a small Bentley. The Renown is the largest saloon built by the British manufacturer from 1946 to 1952 and not to be confused with the smaller Razor edge model from the same stable, known as the Triumph Mayflower.

Notable exponents of Razord edge styling included Hooper, Freestone & Webb and others. Indeed Hooper persisted with this style well into the 1950s with its Empress line, mainly on Rolls-Royce and Daimler.

Marque History

Triumph motor company was founded in Coventry, England by Siegfried Bettmann, just before the turn of the 20th century. Fast-forward a few decades: Having survived two World Wars, they were ready to get back to business after the Second one, but Standard Motor Company had other plans! Fast-forward a few years more, and in 1949, introduced the Renown which was the ultimate development of the 1800, itself historically significant as the first Triumph-badged car made by the Standard Motor Company.

The 1800 incorporated a separate chassis, 1776cc overhead-valve engine and traditional alloy-over-ash coachwork, in the then fashionable ?razor edge? style. Subsequently being updated with components from the more-modern Standard Vanguard as it metamorphosed, firstly into the 2000 and finally into the Renown. The latter featured a Vanguard type box section chassis with coil-spring independent front suspension, in addition to the new 2088cc engine that had already been seen in the 2000. Before the Renown flew off into the pages of history in 1952.