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The Model LW (Junior, Baby) The bike with the longest fuel pipe and shortest HT lead! Manufactured between 1913 and 1926, the Model LW - Light Weight - was a new direction for Triumph and may well have been born of an idea by Seigfried Bettmann’s partner, Mauritz Schulte. Schulte’s three daughters often enjoyed rides seated behind Works Testers, and the story is that Schulte took the first Model LW home for his daughters. Certainly a departure from Triumph’s previous 3½ and 4hp 4-stroke models the Model LW opened up a potential new market for those who were either unable to cope with the larger models, or those models were simply of greater capacity and capability than required by certain individuals. Those who quickly took to the new machine included schoolboys with monied parents (the minimum age at that time for obtaining a motor cycle licence was 14), Ministers of Religion (for visiting distant parishioners), and District Nurses; who needed to be delivered swiftly to where they were going to do their own deliveries! Older riders also took to it when they found that their larger machines were becoming just too much of a handful, and I think that the Model LW is an ideal mount for such seniors today. Quite quickly the LW became known as the ‘Junior’ and was nicknamed the Baby, for it was the smallest of Triumph’s range. While many manufacturers used proprietary Villiers, Dalm, Dayton, Peco or Bingham and Fowler 2-stroke engines Triumph’s was apparently of their own design and different in many respects. It proved to be very reliable right from the start and was so easy to start that it didn’t require a kickstart but could simply be ‘paddled off’ while seated on the low saddle ---------- The early decades of the 20th century was an exciting period of innovation in automotive history when travel options were limited and the freedom of motorcycling was a real adventure. Are you are restoring one of these early Triumph mo