Then, although it doesn't appear in the widely-published records, from various threads over the years on the BritBike Forum, there appears to have been a use of "SR" on some T120's. compared to the corresponding "C"-suffixed (off-road) Competition models' high-mounted pipes/silencers, aluminium or stainless steel 'guards, sometimes different gearboxes, etc. The "R" apparently stood for something like 'Road' or 'Roadster' - the bikes had things like low-mounted pipes and silencers, painted mudguards, etc. The most widely- documented use of "SR" was as a model code suffix on some US-market bikes - TR6SR, T100SR and T20SR - between 1962 and about mid-1966. As an example, there's a thread on here started by someone who bought an ex-NZ police Tiger 90 that someone had stamped the number of a 1954 T110 on the engine, on what was presumably just an unnumbered engine when the bike was sold off by the NZ police. However, unfortunately now that old Triumphs are considered "valuable", the "Service Replacement" story has become an internet myth and convenient way of explaining to more-gullible potential owners the plethora of unnumbered and oddly-numbered crankcases and frames kicking around. Click to expand.There isn't any, at least in any official ex-factory documentation that anyone's found so far.
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