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The Cotton Motor Company, was a British motorcycle manufacturer of 11a Bristol Road, Gloucester, and was founded by Frank Willoughby Cotton in 1918. F.W. presided over the company until his retirement in 1953. The company was reconstituted as E. Cotton (Motorcycles) Ltd, and traded until 1980.
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A little known about motorcycle was the 37AT Trials bike which was partially built by Cotton Motorcycles using some AJS parts and Villiers's 37A engine. By 1974, Norton Villiers was having financial trouble, and the rights to manufacture the Stormer under the AJS banner were purchased.
List of motorcycles of the 1920s is a listing of motorcycles of the 1920s, including those on sale, ... Cotton M25 Blackburne 500 cc OHV 1928.
Abbotsford motorcycles (UK 1919) ABC motorcycles; Aberdale; Abingdon Motorcycles; ABJ (motorcycle) Advance Motor Manufacturing Company; AEL (motorcycle) AER (motorcycles) Airolite; Ajax (motorcycle) AJR (motorcycle) AJS; Akkens (motorcycle) Alecto (motorcycle) Alert (motorcycle) Ambassador Motorcycles; Ascot-Pullin Motorcycles
1928 – The first motorcycle race for women to be held of Brooklands is won by Miss Mae Ruffell (later Mrs. Lacey) on a Grindlay Peerless; 1928 – Bill Lacey sets the 500cc one-hour World and British record and 103.3 miles on a modified 498cc Grindlay Peerless, and later wins the Lord Wakefield Cup with a speed of 107.1 mph
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The company began manufacturing and marketing motorcycles in 1902 under the name Bradbury Motor Cycles. Their first motorcycle was a bicycle fitted with a 1¾ hp Minerva clip-on engine. In 1903 they began producing motorcycles with 2 hp (1.5 kW) engines which they called the Peerless Motor Cycle. These were based on a design by John Birch. [6]