UK Manufacturers: Road Vehicles: Motorcycles: Pre-WWI

See also -

• UK Manufacturers: Road Vehicles: Electric
• UK Manufacturers: Road Vehicles: Internal Combustion: Pre-WWI
• UK Manufacturers: Road Vehicles: Steam

A List of Motorcycle Manufacturers and Assemblers in the UK up to 1914 inclusive.

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Company	Location	First	Last	Years	Extra
ABC		1913	1914
Abingdon		1903	1915
Acme		1901	1922
Advance		1906	1912
Aeolus		1903	1905
AJS		1911	1969
Alldays		1903	1915
Alp		1912	1917
Anglian Motor Co		1903	1912
Arden		1912	1920
Argyle		1913
Armstrong		1902	1905
Armstrong		1913	1914
Arno		1906	1914
Arrow		1913	1917
Ascot		1905	1906
Ashford		1905
ASL		1907	1915
Atlas		1913	1914
Aurora		1902	1907
Austen		1903	1906
Baines and Sons	Gainsborough	1901	1902
Barnes		1904
Barter		1902	1905
Basil		1911
BAT		1902	1926
Beau-Ideal		1905	1906
Beeston		1898	1910
Charles Binks		1903	1906
Bitton and Harley	Great Yarmouth	1905
Birch and Co		1901	1905
Blumfield		1908	1914
Booth		1901	1903
Bord		1902	1906
Borham Engineering Co		1902	1905
Bounds-JAP		1909	1912
Bowden		1902	1905
Bradbury		1901	1925
Brough		1908	1926
Brown		1902	1919
Brown-Bicar		1907	1913
Brown and Buckton	Hipperholme	1897
BSA		1906	1971
Burford		1914	1915
Calcott		1910	1915
Calthorpe		1911	1939
Calvert		1899	1904
Campion		1901	1926
Carlton		1913	1940
Castell		1903
Caswell		1904	1905
Celtic		1910	1914
Centaur		1901	1915
Century		1902	1905
Charlton		1904	1908
Chase		1902	1906
Chater Lea		1900	1937
Clarendon		1901	1911
H. W. Clarke and Co		1903
Clement-Garrard		1902	1911
Cleveland		1911	1914
Clyde		1898	1912
Clyno		1911	1924
Colonial		1911	1913
Condor		1907	1914
Connaught		1910	1927
Contrast-JAP		1912
Corah		1905	1914
Cornelius Crastin	London (Islington)	1896
Corona		1901	1904
Corydon		1904	1908
Coventry-Challenge		1903	1911
Coventry-Eagle		1901	1939
Coventry Motette		1899	1903
Coxeter and Sons	Abingdon	1901
Crownfield		1903	1904
Crypto		1902	1908
Dart		1901	1906
A. C. Davison		1902	1908
Day-Leeds		1912	1914
Dayton		1913	1920
Dene		1903	1922
Dennell		1903	1908
Diamond (DF&M)		1910	1938
Dorman Engineering (Whirlwind)		1901	1903
Dot		1903	1974
Douglas		1907	1964
Dunedin / G. E. Rutherford)		1910	1912
Dunkley		1913	1915
Dux		1904	1906
Eadie		1898	1903
Eagle-Tandem		1903	1905
EBO		1910	1914
Eddie and Walter Cripps Spirac		1901	1904
Edmonton		1903	1910
Edmund		1907	1924
Elf-King		1907	1909
Eli		1911	1912
Elswick		1903	1920
Endrick		1911	1915
Endurance		1909	1924
Energette		1907	1911
Evart-Hall		1903	1905
Excelsior		1896	1964
Fairfield		1914	1915
Farnell		1901
FB Fowler and Bingham		1913	1922
Fee		1905	1908
Fly Carlton of London		1901
Forward		1909	1915
Frank Blackford		1902	1904
Frays (66 Bishops Street, B’ham)		1910	1911
G. and W.		1902	1906
Gaby		1914	1915
Gamage		1905	1924
GB		1905	1907
George Elliot (John North Burch of Nuneaton)		1903	1904
Gerard		1913	1915
Gibson	Birkenhead	1898
Givaudan		1908	1914
Globe		1901	1911
Graphic		1903	1906
Graves (made by Omega)		1914	1915
Greville Motor and Cycle Co		1903
Greyhound		1905	1907
Griffon Motors	London	1903
Haleson		1912
Hamilton		1901	1907
T. W. Hammond		1903
Hampton		1912	1914
Hazel		1906	1911
Hazlewood		1905	1923
W. R. Heighton	Elton, near Peterborough	1903	1905
Hercules		1902
Hobart		1901	1923
Hockley		1914	1916
Holden		1898	1903
Holloway		1902	1905
Howard		1905	1907
Hulbert-Bramley		1903	1906
Humber		1900	1930
Imperial		1901	1910
Invicta Light Locomotive Co	Orpington	1896
Invicta		1902	1906
Invicta		1913	1923
Iris		1902	1906
Ivel(2)		1902	1905
Ivy		1908	1932
Ixion		1900c	1923
Ixion		1901	1903
Jackson		1902	1908
James		1902	1964
JAP		1904	1908
JES		1910	1924
Jesmo		1911	1939
Jesmond		1899	1907
JH		1913	1915
Johnson		1901	1902
JP		1912	1914
Juckes		1910	1926
Juno (Metro Machinists)		1904
Juno		1911	1923
KD (Keller Dorian)		1903	1904
Kerry		1902	1960s
Kestrel		1903
King		1901	1907
Kumfort		1914	1916
Kynoch		1912	1913
Kyrle (G. W. Butcher)		1903
L. and C.		1904
LAC		1896	1906
Ladies Pacer (JES of Gloucester)		1904
Lagonda		1902	1905
Lancer		1904
Lea Francis		1911	1926
Leadbitter	London	1903
Leader (Eli Clarke)		1903
Leonard		1903	1906
Levis		1911	1939
Lily		1906	1914
Lincoln-Elk		1902	1924
Lion Cycle Co	Lowestoft	1900
Little Giant		1913	1915
Lloyd		1903	1923
L.M.C.		1903	1922
Lugton		1912	1914
Lyle		1912	1913
M. and M.		1914
Mabon	London	1903	1908
Mars		1905	1908
Marshall		1905
Martin		1911	1922
Marvel-JAP		1909	1912
Mason and Brown		1903	1908
Matchless		1901	1969
May Brothers		1903	1906
MCC		1903	1910
Mead Cycle Co		1911	1916
J. C. Meredith		1903
Metro		1912	1919
Midget Bicar (J. F. Brown)]]		1908	1912
Millford		1904
Millionmobile		1902
Mohawk		1903	1925
Money’s Prim		1906	1907
Monopole		1911	1924
Montgomery		1902	1939
Morris		1902	1905
Morris		1913	1922
Mountaineer		1902	1926
Moveo		1910	1911
M.R.		1911
Neall		1910	1914
Nestor		1913	1914
New Comet		1905	1932
New Hotspur		1913	1914
New Hudson		1909	1957
New Imperial		1910	1939
New Ryder		1913	1922
New Scale		1909	1925
Nicholas		Pre-WWI
NLG		1905	1912
Noble		1901	c1906
Norton		1902
OEC		1901	1954
Ogston		1911	1913
OK-Supreme		1899	1939
Olympic		1903	1923
Omega (A. J. Dorsett)		1909
Onaway		1904	1908
Orbit		1913	1924
Orlestone	Ashford, Kent	c1902	1905
Ormonde		1900	c1906
Ortona		1904	1906
Osbourne		1904
Osmond		1911	1924
Overseas		1909	1915
Pacer		1914
Pallion		1905	1914
Panther (P&M)		1900	1967
PDC		1903	1906
Pearson		1903	1904
Pearson and Cox		1912 Steam
Pebok		1903	1909
Peco		1913	1915
Peerless		1902	1908
Peerless		1913	1914
Pennington		1897
Perfect		1913	1914
Perks and Birch		1899	1901
Phoenix (Hoydonk)		1900	1908
Pick Motor Co		1908
Pilot		1903	1915
PMC		1908	1915
Portland		1910	1911
Powerful		1903	1906
Precision		1902	1906
Precision		1912	1919
Premier		1908	1920
Premo		1908	1915
Princeps		1903	1907
Progress		1902	1908
Pumphrey		1905	1908
PV		1910	1925
Quadrant Cycle Co	Birmingham	1901	1929
R&P		1902	1906
R. Bamber (Southport)		1903	1905
Radco		1913	1932
Radmill		1912	1914
Raglan		1909	1913
Raleigh		1899	1970s
Raynal		1914	1953
Regal		1909	1915
Regina		1903	1915
Revolution		1904	1906
Rex / Rex-Acme		1900	1933
Rex-JAP		1908	1915
Riley		1901	c1908
Rip		1905	1908
Roc		1904	1915
Rolfe		1911	1914
Romp		1913	1914
Rover		1902	1925
Royal Enfield		1901	1970
Royal Rydal		1902	1904
Royal Sovereign / London Machinists Co		c1902
Royal Wellington		c1902
Royal-Ajax		1901	1908
Royal-Eagle		1901	1939
Royal Ruby		1909	1933
Rudge		1911	1940
Russell		1913
Scott		1909	1960s
Seal		1914	1921
Shaw		1904	1922
Sherbourne Co	Birmingham	1902
Silver		1907	1909
Singer		1900	1915
Slinger		1900	1901
Smith and Molesworth (Alert)		1903	1906
Smith and Son (Camberley)		1900	1905
SMS		1913	1914
Southey		1905	1925
Spark		1903	1904
Sparlbrook		1912	1925
Speed-King-JAP		1913	1914
Stag		1912	1914
Stanley		1902
Star		1898	1914
Stellar		1912	1914
Strettons		1903
Stuart Stellar)		1911	1912
Sun		1911	1961
Sunbeam		1912	1957
Swift		1898	1915
Symplex		1913	1922
TAC		1910
Tee Bee		1908	1911
Thomas		1904
Thorough		1903
Torpedo		1910	1920
Townend		1901	1904
Trafalgar		1902	1905
Tredagh (Ireland)		1902
Trent		1902	c1906
Triumph		1902
Trump-JAP		1906	1923
Tyler		1913	1923
Val		1913	1914
Velocette		1904	1968
Victa		1912	1913
Victoria (Scotland)		1902	1926
Vindec		1902	1929
Waddington		1902	1906
Wakefield		c1902
WD		1911	1913
Wearwell		1901	1906
Weller		1902	1905
Westfield (Rising Sun Motor Works)	London	1903
Westovian		1914	1916
Whippet		1903	1906
White and Poppe		1902	1922
Whitley		1902	1906
Wilbee		1902	1906
Wilkinson		1909	1916
Wilkinson Antoine		1903	1906
Williamson		1912	1920
Win		1908	1914
Wolf		1901	1939
Wooler		1911	1955
E. G. Young	Nottingham	1904	1908
XL-All		1902	1906
Zenith		1904	1950

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