Development

With things slowing down for the winter, its time to look at picking up on the research and development into new products again. We are quite rightly known to be at the fore front of new parts development for our range of cars, something we are keen to promote and blow our collective trumpets about! We have concentrated on performance parts for the past couple of years, and this has born fruit in many new lightweight aluminum products available through us or our agents. Things that have been on the backburner over the summer are now ready and waiting to be picked up and looked at again. One panel in particular that we are keen to sort in the next couple of months is the Vitesse bonnet front panel, the tooling for which has already been started. When available this would again allow for the fairly easy complete rebuild of Vitesse bonnets, indeed we hope to offer completely rebuilt Vitesse bonnets on an exchange or outright basis. Did you know that we now have produced for us every bit of chromework fitted to all Herald/Vitesse/Spitfire/GT6? That's quite some investment on our part, but most of it gets sold to other Triumph traders? If you have bought a new bumper, or over rider for your Triumph recently from anywhere else, then you indirectly bought it from us! Anyone for aluminum panel work for late Spitfires/GT6's? We have a complete range of affordable aluminum panels in stock for these cars, any other panel not in stock up to complete alloy bodyshells can be supplied (at a price!). We have supplied alloy panels to owners of 4 of the the original 'works' Spitfires, and several replicas including Mark Fields (Jigsaw) Spitfire. With access to the only two genuine Leman Spitfire type bonnets in the UK we can also produce perfect alloy/glassfibre composite replica's (the original Leman bonnets were alloy and glassfibre composites, not all alloy). It's not all about the performance and racing stuff though, we are as keen on the day to day bits that keep your car on the road. We have been busy for the last 6 months or so re-sourcing, re-manufacturing many hundreds of nuts, bolts, and fixings that used to be sourced from a company that unfortunately ceased trading last year. This has bought the added bonus of being able to reduce prices on nearly a thousand product lines whilst maintaining or improving quality. What about a new catalogue did I hear you say? Well with supplies of our temporary 2003 price list dwindling (the one with the Macau Spitfire on the front cover), it's time to put renewed impetus into it's replacement. This will be a true successor to the old John Kipping Triumph Spares catalogue you have been hanging onto all of these years, and at nearly twice the number of pages it's guaranteed to be compulsive reading! Exciting times for us, and watch this space for the most exciting news yet, details in the next week or so of our most recent purchase!