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.

In 1885, Nuremberg-born Siegfried Bettmann, then living in London, started the S. Bettmann & Co. Import Export Agency, bringing bicycles to the U.K. By 1889, ...

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 ...

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.

The unpublished memoir of the Lord Mayor of Coventry details how he was forced to resign at WW1's outbreak, because of anti-German feeling.