Corgi VA07404.(C) Triumph Hearld convertible 13/60 in signal red

This item has a limited edition certificate included At the time the Herald was being developed for launch in 1959 the vogue was very much for new cars to be a monocoque construction. However Triumph were a small company in relation to Austin or Morris (and at this time was a rival to those two firms, not a companion company) and needed to have their monocoques built by an outside supplier. None could oblige, as they were all already at full capacity, so Triumph took the brave decision to develop a new car around what seemed like out of date technology. However as modern sports cars makes such as TVR or Lotus whill attest a separate chassis does allow variations on a theme to be produced very easily. Triumph exploited this and off the basic Herald chassis came: a coupe, a convertible, and estate and a van as well as the basic saloon and 6-cylinder Vitesse. It also gave its chassis to the Spitfire, the GT6 and even the Bond Equipe coupe.