Editing Triumph Engineering (section)

==Norton Villiers Triumph==
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[[File:016SFEC VINTAGE-VEHICLES.JPG|thumb|1976 750cc TR7V Tiger built for NVT by the Meriden cooperative]]
After the BSA group went bankrupt in 1972, [[Dennis Poore]], the chairman of Norton-Villiers (a subsidiary of [[Manganese Bronze Holdings]]) was induced by government aid to assume control of BSA/Triumph. Norton and BSA/Triumph were merged under the umbrella of a new company, Norton Villiers Triumph (NVT) in 1972. Poore was made NVT Group chairman and put in charge, even though Norton had produced far fewer bikes than the once-mighty BSA/Triumph.

Poore then held consultations with factory personnel to propose consolidation plans he thought necessary to compete with the Japanese. In September 1973 he announced that the [[Meriden, West Midlands|Meriden]] factory was to close in February 1974, with 3,000 employees out of 4,500 being made redundant.