Designed by Edgar Franks in 1933, the first run of the model 50 was almost identical to the Norton model 18 except for the bore and stroke.The single-cylinder engine was 348 cc with pushrod operated overhead valves.The model 50 and its twin-port brother, the 55, being junior versions of the 490cc Models 18 and 20 respectively.Norton’s sporting 350 ..
Horex was a German motorcycle brand and was founded in 1923 in Bad Homburg by Fritz Kleemann.The name Horex is derived from Ho, Homburg and Rex , meaning King in Latin.Only five years after the end of the second world war Horex brought the 350cc Regina on the market.For 1950 this was a dream motorcycle and soon turned out to be a bestseller for Hor..
With demand for cheap, reliable transport in post-war Europe on the increase, BMW's single-cylinder range of motorcycles sold in unprecedented numbers, forging the Bavarian company's reputation as a maker of high quality two-wheeled machines.With Allied restrictions preventing BMW from making anything of greater capacity than 250cc, the R24/25 seri..
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James 1958 Cadet 147ccJames’s first post-war ‘125’ was the ML, a 122cc Villiers 9D-engined machine derived from a successful military design.It was superseded in 1948 by a new model similar to the 98cc Comet but using heavier cycle parts and the 10D engine.For 1950 the 122cc machine was named ‘Cadet’ and by the time the L15 model offered here was ..
Since his schoolboy days Philip Vincent had been a great admirer of Howard Raymond Davies, who had begun manufacturing HRD machines at Wolverhampton in 1924. While studying mechanical engineering at Cambridge Vincent built his prototype Vincent Special that already incorporated the strong triangulated and braced sprung rear fork that would remain a..
The sports version of Edward Turner's trend-setting Speed Twin 500, the Tiger 100 sports version was launched in 1938, reappearing in 1946 with telescopic forks in place of the original girders, and separate dynamo and magneto instead of the pre-war version's mag-dyno.An aluminium alloy cylinder head and barrel were adopted for 1951, these and othe..