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In 1988 Squire merged with the struggling Watsonian company to form Watsonian Squire, now the UK's largest sidecar producer. In 2002 Motor Cycle News set a Guinness World Record for a motorcycle and trailer reaching a timed speed of 139.5 mph at Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, pulling a Squire D21 trailer behind a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 motorcycle.
A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, ... One of Britain's oldest sidecar manufacturers, Watsonian, was founded in 1912.
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Eric Staines Oliver (13 April 1911 – 1 March 1980) was an English motorcycle racer best remembered as four-time Sidecar World Champion administered by the FIM, riding a Norton. His passenger in 1949 was Denis Jenkinson .
Watsonian may refer to: Watsonian Squire, an historic brand name of sidecar for motorcycles; List of people educated at George Watson's College, former pupils of George Watson's College in Edinburgh, known in some circles at "Watsonians" Dr. Watson, a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The polished aluminum sidecar attracted his 20-year-old neighbor Lyons, who bought one. The following year, the two men decided to begin producing the sidecar commercially. The Swallow Sidecar Company of Blackpool was the result, the partnership officially beginning a week after Lyons' 21st birthday for legal reasons.
The guys also visit an off-the-grid hangar-sized geodesic dome home of Sidecar Willy, where they discover two gems: a very rare piece of rock 'n' roll history and an unusual 1959 Watsonian Squire motorcycle sidecar, as well as NASA mission patches, The Beatles Yesterday and Today album cover and other Beatles memorabilia.
With 633 cc (38.6 cu in), it was the largest and most powerful side-valve engine in the model range and with plenty of low end torque was mostly used to haul sidecars. It was called Big 4 because it was rated at 4 tax horsepower. Mechanically, 'the power output, about which Norton Motors tended to be cagey, was lowly, 14 bhp for 1951'. [1]