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Triumph TR5 Trophy Edward Turner, the Managing Director and Chief Designer of the Triumph Engineering Company held firm views about the extent to which manufacturers should take part in off-road competition events. He considered it futile to spend vast sums of money trying to win races when it could be better deployed in making better…

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The Sun Cycles and Fittings Company Limited, of Aston Brook Street, Birmingham, bad a long association with the British motorcycle industry. Founded by the Parkes family in 1885, their first involvement with two wheels was when they made the Sun Spider, a penny-farthing bicycle. In 1911, they moved into the manufacture of motorcycles, offering three…

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1949 Scott Unlike some of the other motorcycle manufacturers, the Scott Motor Cycle Company did not supply motorcycles to the armed forces during World War 2. Instead, they became involved in war work of a different nature, some of which came from the Admiralty. Single cylinder models of rugged construction, needing only a minimum of…

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Indian Brave The Indian Motorcycle Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, a formidable rival to Harley-Davidson, were just as famous for their large capacity vee-twins. The first appeared way back in 1906 and by 1911 they had made a tremendous impact here, when they dominated the 1911 Senior TT, taking the first three places. Not only did…

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Continental Sports had a cobby look It would seem that Frank Willoughby Cotton, the founder of the Cotton Motor Company, shared similar ideas to Alfred Scott when it came to motorcycle frame design. Impressed by his triangulated layout, which avoided the use of anything other than straight tubes, Cotton devised his own design. It differed…

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