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The Scott Motorcycle Company was owned by Scott Motors (Saltaire) Limited, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England and was a well-known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry. Founded by Alfred Angas Scott in 1908 as the Scott Engineering Company in Bradford, Yorkshire, [1] Scott motorcycles were produced until 1978.
The Squirrel name was used for Scott motorcycles since 1921 but with the death of the founder Alfred Angas Scott in 1923 the unorthodox Scott two-stroke motorcycles began to become more conventional. Development of the three-speed Scott Flying Squirrel began in 1922 as the company was in severe debt and faced receivership.
The Scott Trial began in 1914 when Alfred Angas Scott, inventor and founder of the Scott Motorcycle Company challenged the workers at his factory to ride from the factory in Shipley through the Yorkshire Dales to Burnsall, a riverside village near Grassington. Of the 14 starters only 9 finished. The event was reintroduced after the First World ...
The Springfield History Museum's latest exhibit highlights the people and history of early motorcycle culture in the early 1900s.
The Scott Sociable was an English automobile manufactured from 1921 to 1925 by the Scott Autocar Company of Bradford, Yorkshire, an offshoot of the Scott Motorcycle Company. Scott Sociable on display at the Bradford Industrial Museum Scott Sociable. During World War I Alfred Angas Scott had made sidecar machine gun carriers. From these he ...
S. List of motorcycles in the Smithsonian Institution. Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum. Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame.
History of the motorcycle. The history of the motorcycle begins in the second half of the 19th century. Motorcycles are descended from the " safety bicycle," a bicycle with front and rear wheels of the same size and a pedal crank mechanism to drive the rear wheel. [ 1 ]
The New England Motorcycle Museum has nearly 200 vintage motorcycles, dating from 1920 to 2021, making the museum the largest collection of vintage motorcycles in the Northeast, and one of the largest motorcycle museums in the country. [10] The museum contains motorcycle memorabilia as well as a motorcycle library.