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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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