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The A7 and A10 models were semi-unit construction until about 1953 and pre-unit construction thereafter. All A50, A65 and A70 models were unit construction . BSA's first parallel twin. Called "Flash" in the US after 1954. BSA's first 650 cc parallel twin. Known as "Royal Tourist" in the US from 1960.
Excelsior Motor Company. 1927 Excelsior. 1950 Excelsior Universal 125cc. Excelsior, based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain ’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own ‘motor-bicycle’ in 1896. Initially they had premises at Lower Ford Street, Coventry, and 287-295 Stoney ...
The Norton Motorcycle Company (formerly Norton Motorcycles.) is a brand of motorcycles headquartered in Solihull, West Midlands, (originally based in Birmingham ), England. For some years around 1990, the rights to use the name on motorcycles were owned by North American financiers. The business was founded in 1898 as a "fittings and parts for ...
Triumph used their own engine for the first time, 250 were made, 3 hp. Model. 474. 1908-1909. production up to 3000 in 1909. Model Roadster. 500. 1910-1913. single speed, optional rear hub clutch as the 'free engine' model.
Mahindra & Mahindra. Website. www.bsacompany.co.uk. BSA Company Limited is a motorcycle manufacturer which purchased rights to the BSA name from Birmingham Small Arms Company 's successor, Dennis Poore 's Manganese Bronze Holdings, upon the liquidation of Norton Villiers Triumph in 1978. In October 2016, India's Mahindra Group purchased BSA for ...
B. Baughan. Siegfried Bettmann. Birmingham Small Arms Company. Blackburne (motorcycles) Bown Manufacturing Company. Bradbury Motor Cycles. Broom Development Engineering. Brough Superior.
Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer, established in 1983 by John Bloor after the original company Triumph Engineering went into receivership. [ 2] The new company, initially called Bonneville Coventry Ltd, continued Triumph's lineage of motorcycle production since 1902.
Hesketh Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, initially based in Daventry and Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, England. The company was formed by Alexander, 3rd Lord Hesketh, to develop a prototype in 1980. After two variations of his business had rapidly failed, from 1984 onwards the marque was maintained and improved by Broom ...