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    Humber Limited was a pioneering British motorcycle manufacturer. Humber produced the first practical motorcycle made in Britain by fitting one of their...
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    Humber Limited was a British manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, and cars, incorporated and listed on the stock exchange in 1887. It took the name "Humber...
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  • II. Humber cycles Humber motorcycles Vessels HMS Humber was the name of nine ships of the Royal Navy. Public Transportation Humber Loop, a streetcar loop...
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    Loste, Champion du Midi, on a Humber bicycle with a Simpson lever chain c. 1894 Humber motorcycles Humber Limited Thomas Humber List of bicycle manufacturing...
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    The Humber Bridge is a 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi) single-span road suspension bridge near Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
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    Barton-upon-Humber (/ˈbɑːrtən əˈpɒn ˈhʌmbʌr/) or Barton is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was...
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    motorcycles competed in the first International Six Days Trial (ISDT) in 1913 (now called the International Six Days Enduro). Three P&M motorcycles competed...
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    on Bagan Plain in Myanmar KTM, electric off-road motorcycles The early history of electric motorcycles is somewhat unclear. On 19 September 1895, a patent...
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    engined motorcycle was produced in November 1902 by the Princeps AutoCar Company in the United Kingdom. The following year, V-twin motorcycles were produced...
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    Coventry Transport Museum (category Motorcycle museums in the United Kingdom)
    vehicles, 100 motorcycles, 200 bicycles. The ever-changing temporary exhibitions feature motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles from the museums...
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    scooter trike is that motorcycles are sat on in a "saddle"-style seating (as with a horse), with the legs apart, and motorcycles have manual transmissions...
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    Puch (category Motorcycle manufacturers of Austria)
    and motorcycles. It was a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate. From 1889 Johann Puch (1862–1914) worked as an agent for Humber vehicles...
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    until 1953 when the motorcycle business was moved into holding BSA Motorcycles Ltd. The first instance of intention to produce motorcycles was reported in...
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  • achieve this, including "private telephone-lines, shearing machines, Humber motorcycles and Serpollet steam-motorcars." In 1907, Ramsay married 20-year-old...
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    wheels. Some are motorized tricycles, which may be legally classed as motorcycles, while others are tricycles without a motor, some of which are human-powered...
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  • For single cylinder motorcycles not exceeding 300 cc engine capacity and 340 cc twin cylinder motorcycles. 1912–1948 For motorcycles not exceeding 350 cc...
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  • aka " "Johnny Sombrero"", of Toronto was a member of the Humber Valley Riders Motorcycle Club, but broke away in 1951 to found the Black Diamond Riders...
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    wheel of a trike. In 1904, he developed a range of more conventional motorcycles which included 346 cc two strokes and, from 1911, side-valve models of...
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    Flat-twin engine (category Motorcycle engines)
    motorcycles reduce this effect by rotating flywheels or alternators in the opposite direction to that of the crankshaft. One of the first motorcycles...
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  • companies at the Barton-upon-Humber site in 1914 under the title Elswick Hopper Cycle and Motor Company. The Barton-upon-Humber site began to boom, producing...
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    List of motorized trikes (category Lists of motorcycles)
    trike/three-wheelers etc.) Types of motorcycles Motorcycle motor powered car Enzyklopädie des Motorrads [Encyclopedia of Motorcycles], Instituto Geografico De Agostini...
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    Arthur William Wall (category Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    internal expanding clutch. Other motorcycles licensed Roc equipment, for example in 1911 the Humber 3.5-HP 2-speed motorcycle was listed as having "Roc Patents"...
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    Gladiator & Humber & Co Limited. The range of cycles was expanded with tricycles, quadricycles, and in 1902 a motorised bicycle, then cars and motorcycles. From...
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    which fit the description had been developed earlier, such as by Thomas Humber in 1868. Unlike with penny-farthings, the rider's feet were within reach...
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  • Thos Borthwick & Sons. They were provided with an Overland car and a Humber motorcycle. A horse and buggy was retained. A postwar slump in 1920 reduced activity...
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    IOE engine (category Motorcycle engines)
    extremity of the combustion chamber. Motorcycles The IOE valvetrain layout was used extensively in early American motorcycles, mainly based on a French design...
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    Bown Manufacturing Company (category Motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    manufacturing their own range of motorcycles, the company also offered equipment for other makes of bike: motorcycle hubs, rim brakes, ball-bearing clutches...
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    was contested by 35 entrants. It was won by Percy J. Evans riding a Humber motorcycle in 3 hours, 37 minutes and 7 seconds at an average speed of 41.45 mph...
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  • (Dingo) (6,626) Guy armoured car (101) Humber armoured car (5,400) Humber light reconnaissance car (over 3,600) Humber scout car (at least 4,102) Lanchester...
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  • Ariel and BSA motorcycles and scooters. Further contracts undertaken during the 1960s and early 1970s were the conversion of Humber Hawk and Super Snipe...
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