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For sale, a great item to add to your collection today!!

Here we have a very nice Edison Triumph crank. This one is the screw on version, correct for Model B and after. It is in as-found condition and will clean up wonderfully!
An outstanding opportunity to add to your collection.

The price is $75 plus the cost of shipping and Insurance.

Please contact me at [email protected] with interest.

What makes this a Triumph crank...??? I thought that the Triumph crank was a solid cast threaded crank looking different from this... Were there Early and Late Triumph cranks??? To me, The crank pictured looks just like a regular Standard/Home crank...

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Tony K.

Edison Collector/Restorer

Hey Tony,

Great questions.

The Triumph crank is dimensionally larger than a Home or Standard crank. The Triumph crank shaft is also a larger diameter, requiring a larger diameter hole and threads on the crank. If you look at the following picture, you'll see the Triumph crank (on the top) I am selling here, compared with a crank (on the bottom) appropriate for an Edison Home, Standard, or Fireside.
There are earlier Triumph cranks for the Model A that are cast, and not threaded. They are slip on like the early Homes and Standards. Later Edison's, mostly model B and beyond, used threaded cranks. There is also a variation of the Triumph crank as well as the one for the Home/ Standard/ Fireside that is cast, but nickle plated and threaded.

Hope that helps!

Be well

Shawn

Shawn wrote: There are earlier Triumph cranks for the Model A that are cast, and not threaded. They are slip on like the early Homes and Standards.

Shawn

The main difference between the Triumph Model A and other early cranks, is that the Triumph fits on a square winding shaft, whereas the others have a pin and slot arrangement.

- Bill