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Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope around 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, US and incorporated in Hartford, Connecticut in 1877. Manufacturing of bicycles began in 1878 in Hartford at the Weed Sewing Machine Company factory. Pope manufactured bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. From 1905 to 1913, Pope gradually ...
The Pope Model L was a motorcycle produced by Pope Manufacturing Company in Westfield, Massachusetts, [1] between 1914 [2] and 1920. The Model L was, at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h), the fastest motorcycle in the world when introduced.
The following is a list of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only or off-road-only motorcycles .
Pope Model L: 61 cu in (1,000 cc) 1913: United States: America on the Move [6] Autoped motor scooter: 155 cc (9.5 cu in) [7] 1918: United States: America on the Move [8] Cleveland: 13.5 cu in (221 cc) 1918: United States: America on the Move [9] Indian Single: 1918: United States: America on the Move [10] Simplex Servi-Cycle: 7.9 cu in (129 cc ...
Pierce Four, sold from 1909 to 1913 when the company went out of business [1]. List of motorcycles of the 1910s is a listing of motorcycles of the 1910s, including those on sale, introduced, or otherwise relevant in this period.
Packman & Poppe (P&P) was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Founded by Erling Poppe and Gilmour Packman the first motorcycle was produced in 1922 with a 250 cc (15 cu in) two-stroke engine . This was followed by a 976 cc (59.6 cu in) side-valve machine with a JAP V-twin engine in 1923 and the Silent Three using a 350 cc (21 cu in) Barr and ...
A 1910 Pope-Hartford Forty won the free-for-all race in November of 1909 celebrating the 300th anniversary of the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Don Gaspar de Portola, and for 1911 Pope-Hartford made available a chain-drive Fiat chassis fitted with a Pope engine and marketed as the Fiat-Portola.
List of motorcycles by type of engine is a list of motorcycles by the type of motorcycle engine used by the vehicle, such as by the number of cylinders or configuration.. A transverse engine is an engine mounted in a vehicle so that the engine's crankshaft axis is perpendicular to the direction of travel.