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MARQUES
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THERE ARE MORE MAKES AND MODELS
OF BRITISH MOTORCYCLES THAN PEOPLE THINK, IN FACT THERE IS A MARQUE FOR
EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET.BELOW IS AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SOME OF
THE MARQUES, SOME OF THEM YOU MIGHT KNOW, OTHERS YOU MIGHT NOT.
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ABBOTSFORD....1919-20 1.5 hp power units
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ABC...1913-14 designed by Granville Bradshaw
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ARIEL..1902-70 Birmingham made
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BAT...1902=26 owned by the Tessier family
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BROUGH SUPERIOR..1921-40 built by George Brough
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BURNEY..1923-25 designed by Cecil Burney
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CALTHORPE..1911-39 founded by George Hands
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CHATER-LEA...1900=37
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COTTON..1920-80 designed by F.Willoughby.Cotton
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DOUGLAS..1907-56 1st Douglas designed by J.F.Barter
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DREADNOUGHT..1915-25 made by William Lloyds cycle
LTD in Birmingham
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DUNELT..1919-56 had double diameter pistons
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EADIE..1898-1903 closley connected with the foundation
of the Royal Enfield factory
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EXCELSIOR..1896-1964 Birmingham made
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FEDERATION..1919-37 the CO-OP machine built in Birmingham
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FRANCIS BARNETT..1919-64 built in Coventry
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GAMAGE..1905-24 buikt and sold by Gamages of Holborn
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GRINDLAY-PEERLESS..1923-24 originally a sidecar factory
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HAZELWOOD..1905-23 not very well known at home [britain]
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HOBART..1901-23 a big Coventry based factory
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INVICTA..1913-23 built at the francis barnett factory
in coventry
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JAMES..1902-64 built in Birmingham
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JES..1910-24 later taken over by Connaught
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KERRY..1902-60s made at the Abingdon factory
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KYNOCH..1912-13 once a famous arms factory built
in Birmingham
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LEA-FRANCIS..George Bernard Shaw was one of their
customers
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LEVIS..1911-40 built in Birmingham
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MARTINSYDE..1919-25 a former aircraft factory
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MATCHLESS..1899-1969 a very well known mke
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NEW HUDSON..1909-57 well known motorcycle factory
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NORTON..1901-founded by James Lansdowne
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NUT..1912-33 very nice VEE TWINS
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OEC..1901-54 built by the Osborn Engineering Company
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OK [OK-SUPREME ]..1899-1939 early OK models had De
Dion engines
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PANTHER [P&M ]..1900-65 founders were Jonah Phelon
& Richard Moore
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P&P..1822-30 Ealing Poppe designed these motorcycles
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QUADRANT..1901-29 designed by W.I.Lloyd
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RADCO..1913-32 excellent machines
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RALEIGH..1899-1933 very nice machines now part of
Tube investments ltd
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ROYAL ENFIELD..1898-1971built in reditch [birmingham]
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SALTLEY..1919-24 also an assembler of machines
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SCOTT..1909-81 watercooled machines
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SUNBEAM..1912-57 regarded as having the best workmanship
and finish of all singles
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THREE-SPIRES.. made by Coventry Bicycles ltd
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TRIUMPH..1903- Coventry based founded by two germans
Siegfried Bettmann & Maurice Schulte in 1897
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TYLER..1913-23 built lightweight machines
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UNIBUS..1920=22 built by Boultbee
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VAL..1913-14 sidecar producerwho built J.A.P. engined
machines
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VASCO..1921-23 only a single model was made by this
factory
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VELOCETTE..1904-68 once a world famouse make
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VERUS..1919-25 made by wisemann in Birmingham
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VINCENT [HRD]..1928-56 in 1928 Phil Vincent bought
the manufacturing rights of HRD
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WOOLER..1911-55 designed by John Wooler brilliant
designs
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XL-ALL..1902-06 built 2 & 4 hp Vee Twins
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YOUNG..1919-23 made by Mohawk Motorcycles
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ZENITH..1904-50 1st produced Bi-cars
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SITE DESIGNED BY...AJAY
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| Last updated ..18/7/03 |