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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Phelon & Moore (redirect from Panther (motorcycle))
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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V-twin engine (section Motorcycles)
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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Motorized tricycle (redirect from Three-wheeled motorcycle)
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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Birmingham Small Arms Company (redirect from BSA motorcycle)
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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Singer Motors (redirect from Singer (motorcycle))
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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