Grease and Gasoline

The British made Hesketh V1000, first launched in 1981 featured Marzocchi suspension and Brembo brakes. The V1000 did not sell well. Later a faired tourer, the Hesketh Vampire was introduced, it too …

Is a little known manufacturer whose motorcycles dominated the South Coventry area in late August 1927. The founder of the Spagthorpe Motor works was Harry Shuttleworth. Harry was born in a small vil…

After seeing the recent Throttle Yard posting for an octet of Cottons for sale, I thought this might prove of interest. I wrote this short Cotton history as my Winter 2009 Pulp Non Fiction column i…

motorcycle was developed by one of England 's oldest motorcycle companies. BSA grew out of a consortium of firearms manufacturers who first expanded into bicycles, then into the fledgling " …

History Panther motorcycles were manufactured by Phelon & Moore (P&M) in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, UK from 1900 to 1967. The most famous models are large (~600cc) single cylinder machines where…

Of Moorfield Road, produced a number of prototype motorcycles in 1939. In April, details of the 'Chell Lightweight' appeared in the ' Motor Cycle and Cycle Trader' magazine. The mach…

The Bonneville is a range of British motorcycles , made in three different production runs from 1959 to 1983, and 1985 to 1988, by the now-defunct Triumph Engineering in Meriden ; and since 2001, by…