Triumph is one of the most storied and long-lived motorcycle brands, with a wealth of amazing motorcycles under its belt.Founded in England by German migrant Siegfried Bettmann in the 1880s, the ...

Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph motorbike company in the city at the turn of the 20th Century - but was shunned during the First World War because of his German roots.

Founded in the late 1800s by Siegfried Bettmann, Triumph started as a bicycle producer before venturing into motorcycles in 1902 with a design featuring a Belgian Minerva engine. Throughout the years ...

He was the Lord Mayor of Coventry, a leading businessman employing thousands of people and, above all, a British citizen. But that didn’t stop German-born Siegfried Bettmann being forced from ...

Bettmann, who began his career as an aspiring entrepreneur, founded the Triumph Cycle Company in 1886. ... Siegfried Bettmann – the founder of Triumph Motorcycles ...

Siegfried Bettmann in his mayor's robes after he was elected, unopposed, for a second term in 1914. By Jerry Chester. BBC News. The outbreak of World War One saw a wave of anti-German feeling ...

Bettmann/CORBIS — -- A private ... "German-American families traveled to Siegfried Park, then known as Camp Siegfried, to attend rallies and marches in support of Nazism," the federal lawsuit ...

Yet “Camp Siegfried,” he thought, was worth the worry. Wohl believes that almost any play about this time and these events would be. Because if we know our history, maybe we won’t repeat it.

"Adolf Hitler Strasse" wasn't a street in Germany—it was a street at Camp Siegfried, a Nazi summer camp located in Yaphank, New York on Long Island during the 1930s. Bettmann/Corbis The hamlet ...

The unpublished memoir of the Lord Mayor of Coventry details how he was forced to resign at WW1's outbreak, because of anti-German feeling.