Triumph forensics

[Stig]

My BMIHT Certificate states that my TR4 was shipped from Liverpool aboard the California Star. Did a little searching and found it. My car's first boat ride!

 

[DrEntropy]

A perilous journey, no doubt!

 

[Brosky]

Interesting. I've got to dig my certificate out and find a picture of the ship.

 

[Brosky]

OK, mine came out of the Seaforth Dock in Liverpool. Here's a collage of the ship(s), the port and what looks like some Triumphs waiting to be loaded. Click on them for a bigger view.

There are some other funny looking cars there, but a lot of Triumphs to add some class to the shipment.

https://www.btinternet.com/~philipbparker/royal_seaforth_dock_1972-2005.htm

 

[PeterK]

Mine didn't list a ship, just destination as as Hawaii, presumably to a US military officer or such. This was one year before Hawaii joined the U.S. in 1959. I wonder what route the car traveled from England.

The Hawaii license plate read Aloha in 1958, not Aloha State as it was changed to in 1959. Otherwise the same.

 

[Guest]

OK, mine came out of the Seaforth Dock in Liverpool. Here's a collage of the ship(s), the port and what looks like some Triumphs waiting to be loaded. Click on them for a bigger view.

There are some other funny looking cars there, but a lot of Triumphs to add some class to the shipment.

https://www.btinternet.com/~philipbparker/royal_seaforth_dock_1972-2005.htm

Doesn't the picture look like the Brit's were thinking: "Let's hurry up and get these cars over there before those Yanks change their minds." :laugh:

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[TR6oldtimer]

Now we know where the rust first started.

 

[Brosky]

I think that you and Ray each have it partly right.

"Let's get these over there before they rust out sitting here"

 

[Geo Hahn]

"Let's get these over there before they rust out sitting here"

For some insight into the story of shipment, this recent post to the Tirumph list from John Macartney is priceless:

https://www.team.net/mharc/archives/html/triumphs/2008-05/msg00013.html

 

[Geo Hahn]

My BMIHT Certificate states that my TR4 was shipped from Liverpool aboard the California Star. Did a little searching and found it. My car's first boat ride!

My Cetificate does not specify a ship... could you tell me what dates yours show (I suppose 'despatch date' would be the most relvant. Thanks!

 

[Geo Hahn]

Mine didn't list a ship, just destination as as Hawaii... I wonder what route the car traveled from England...

FWIW -- My TR4 was originally sold in Hawaii but the cert shows it shipped to Cal Sales in LA. This was in 1964.

 

[Stig]

I have 2 certificates. The first is for a TR4, Date of dispatch: 19 December 1963, Destination: San Francisco, Shipped from Liverpool aboard the vessel 'California Star'. The second is for a TR3B, Date of dispatch 29 August 1962, Destination: Boston, Shipped from Gladstone Dock, Liverpool aboard the vessel 'American Press'. I cannot find a pix of the American Press but I found it was owned By Lykes Steamship Company, Tampa, Florida.