Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,713 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Mars

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Mars were motorcycles produced from 1922 to 1924, by Mars Ltd. of White Friars Lane, Coventry.

The machine was fitted with any of the popular single-cyclinder engines available at the time. Capacity also varied. The engines included: Villiers 147cc, 269cc and 342cc; JAP 292cc and 597cc; Blackburne 348cc; Bradshaw 348cc plus the sleeve-valve Barr and Stroud of 249cc and 499cc.


Sources of Information

The British Motorcycle Directory - Over 1,100 Marques from 1888 - by Roy Bacon and Ken Hallworth. Pub: The Crowood Press 2004 ISBN 1 86126 674 X