page_title: Edward Turner
section_title: Triumph T100 GP
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Turner / Triumph general manager and chief designer / Triumph T100 GP
caption_attribution_description: English: Triumph GP 500 1947
context_page_description: Edward Turner was an English motorcycle designer. He was born in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark, on the day King Edward VII was proclaimed King.
  In 1915, Turner had his first ride on a motorcycle, a Light Tourist New Imperial.
context_section_description: Ernie Lyons won the first Manx Grand Prix on a Tiger 100 built by Freddie Clarke using an alloy wartime generator engine and the unreleased sprung hub in 1946. Turner, away in America, and anti-racing, was furious when he heard, but threw Lyons a victory dinner anyway, and a small batch of replica T100 were made for sale. Clarke resigned and joined AMC as Chief Development Engineer.  Bert Hopwood had an argument with Turner over racing, left Triumph, and stayed away for 14 years.
  The Mark I sprung rear hub was introduced in late 1947.
  In 1948, Turner was persuaded to allow the entry of three 500 cc twins in the Senior TT, but none of them finished, so the experience only added to Turner's opposition to factory racing.
caption: 1947 500 cc Triumph T100 GP
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