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DMW 224cc Cortina DMW started from a small shop in Wolverhampton known as Dawsons Motors. It was run by W.L. (Smokey) Dawson who, during 1942, designed a plunger-type rear suspension system for converting a rigid frame, followed a year later by his own design of telescopic front fork. Both were marketed locally in the form…

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1938 James Autocycle It was the ever elusive `everyman' market, that was to be the spur which led to the designing of an ultra-reliable, economical, capable, but viceless little motorcycle in the years before World War II. Although Britain was fast emerging from the bad times of the early 1930s, those fortunate enough to have…

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Honda had their CB range, while Kawasaki challenged them with their big Zeds, leaving two-stroke kings Suzuki and Yamaha behind. But not for long, by the middle of that decade Suzuki had come up with their answer in the shape of an affordable, practical and reliable four-stroke model. Titled the GS series it would go…

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First dilemma of the day, blue or red? Thanks to a tie-in with the Indian company in the USA a whole dealership network became available to Royal Enfield. OK so the UK company had to repaint models and rename a few to suit North American tastes but it moved motorcycles and that was all to…

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