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The BSA Sunbeam badge. In 1937 the Sunbeam motorcycle trademark was sold to Associated Motor Cycles Ltd (AMC) which continued to make Sunbeam bicycles and motorcycles until 1939. AMC's core business was the manufacture of Matchless and AJS motorcycles. Some years after it sold Sunbeam, AMC went on to own Norton, James and Francis-Barnett. In ...
1947 S7 at the National Motorcycle Museum (UK). The Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club is one of the longest established in the UK and was founded in July 1924 at the London showrooms of John Marston Ltd in Holborn Viaduct who made the Sunbeam motorcycles in their factory at Wolverhampton. [5]
Pages in category "Sunbeam motorcycles" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Sunbeam name had originally been registered by John Marston in 1888 for his bicycle manufacturing business. Sunbeam motor car manufacture began in 1901. The motor business was sold to a newly incorporated Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited in 1905 to separate it from Marston's pedal bicycle business; Sunbeam motorcycles were not made until 1912.
Sunbeam motorcycles (3 P) Pages in category "Sunbeam vehicles" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ...
John Marston (1836–1918) was a successful Victorian bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer and founder of the Sunbeam company of Wolverhampton. [1] His company was also one of the country's largest manufacturers of japanware and he was responsible for building 'Seagull' outboard engines for marine use and also for starting the Villiers engineering company.
Moorfield House's former stable was the workshop in which a Sunbeam motor car was first produced Joseph Lavender, F.R.I.B.A., St Luke's Church, Blakenhall is in the left background. Moorfield Works, the new buildings built in 1905 on the site of Moorfield House for the new Sunbeam Motor Car Company. The house and its grounds bought by Marston ...
Poppe designed the Sunbeam S7 and S8 motorcycles based on the BMW R75 designs that were acquired by BSA (together with the full rights to the Sunbeam brand) at the end of World War II. [5] Built in Redditch, the engine layout was an unusual in-line 500 cc twin with a shaft drive to the rear wheel.