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Prior to that the bikes were made a Meridian near Birmingham England (commonly called preunit bikes).
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Yes, before Hinckley, Triumphs were made in Meriden, but not a all Meriden bikes were "pre-unit" bikes. Triumphs made before approximately 1963 or 1964 had a seperate engine and transmision that were not built within the same casing. Later, the bikes had the engine and transmission within the same casing, thus called a unit construction. The unit twins from Meriden did not share engine oil and transmission oil like the Hinckley bikes do. Once the unit construction bikes were made, those that were not unit construction then became referred to as "pre-unit" bikes, referring to the engine case and transmission case, as stated above, being seperate chunks of metal. As for Meriden, that factory was built after WWII, when the Coventry plant was bombed by the Germans.
