Triumph Experimental - Doug Hele and his development team 1962-1975 VW Beetle 678 mph was not far

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Triumph Experimental - Doug Hele and his development team 1962-1975 VW Beetle 678 mph was not farTriumph Experimental Doug Hele and his development team 1962 1975, tells for the first time the full story of chief development engineer Doug Hele and his men at Triumph's Meriden motorcycle factory (and later at the Norton Triumph research centre). Hele was Britain's brightest and most progressive motorcycle engineer of the 1960s and 1970s. He transformed the handling of the 650cc Bonneville twin and developed the three cylinder 750cc engine used by