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Nella storia della moto gli anni '50 e '60 rappresentano per l'Inghilterra il periodo di massimo fulgore. Tutti gli appassionati si rivolgono ai marchi inglesi sapendo di trovare nei loro listini il massimo in fatto di eleganza, fascino e prestazioni. La produzione comprende molti modelli di cilindrata elevata, destinati soprattutto al mercato americano....
Il volume è dedicato alle due ruote apparse in Europa e negli Stati Uniti fra l'inizio degli anni Cinquanta e la fine del decennio successivo. Tanto nel Vecchio Continente quanto oltre Oceano sono state prodotte alcune delle motociclette più affascinanti di tutti i tempi, firmate, ...
L’histoire de la moto est essentiellement connue par ses modèles les plus célèbres. Ces vedettes ont ainsi laissé dans l’ombre les inventions parfois loufoques de quelques inventeurs, et celles, géniales, qui n’ont pourtant pas connu de succès par manque de moyen, de technologie ou tout simplement de chance. C’est à toutes ces motos délaissées par...
George Brough started building motorcycles shortly after the First World War. The machines were named Brough Superior both to distinguish them from his father's Brough machines and to denote the highest levels of performance and quality of manufacture. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the name Brough Superior was synonymous with the very best in motorcycle...
The firm of Royal Enfield was one of the best-known names of the British motorcycle industry, but curiously its products have never received the adulation bestowed on the products of Triumph, BSA and others. In this complete history, top motorcycle authority Mick Walker shows that there was, in fact, ...
The diminutive BSA Bantam is one of the icons of British motoring in the twentieth century. It was not fast, or glamorous, or particularly well built; but it was cheap, easy to ride and reasonably reliable. It was an introduction to motoring for thousands of men and women in the fifties and sixties, and it still holds an important place in the memory of...
Plus qu’un simple historique, cet ouvrage est la source la plus complète de données et de détails intéressants utiles aux propriétaires et futurs propriétaires de ces classiques que sont les twins de Triumph : c’est la bible des Speed Twin et des Thunderbird.
Francis-Barnett was central in the two golden eras of the motorcycle industry, the 1930s and the 1950s. The company was founded in 1919 by Gordon Francis and Arthur Barnett, and based in Lower Ford Street, Coventry, England. Francis-Barnett played a key role in the motorcycle industry with the production of it's 'home to work' commuting two-stroke...
Riche de plus de quatre cents illustrations, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire de l’industrie motocycliste britannique et des constructeurs les plus emblématiques, ainsi que celle des pilotes qui leur ont apporté leurs lettres de noblesse.
Coventry, home of the cycle industry, was also to become the birthplace of the motor industry when the Daimler Company became the first in Britain to mass produce cars in the late 1890s. Spearheaded by H.J. Lawson, Coventry soon became a hub of motoring activity, and by the early 1900s was teaming with small and large companies, testing cars, ...
This book sets out to record the amazing achievements of a real British industrial empire, the Wolverhampton-based Villiers Engineering Company; spanning over 100 years of production, from the original cycle business to the final sell-off of the remaining industrial engine arm at the beginning of this century....