Olympia Show Page 1173
November 9th, 1911.
Motorcycles
Olympia, the Mecca of motor cyclists, opens its doors on Monday, November 20th, at 10 a.m., and closes at 10 p.m. The Exhibition finally closes on the following Saturday, the 26th inst. The price of admission is 1s. The number of motor cycle exhibitors at this second annual show is a record, viz., 169. All readers who can, should find time to pay a visit. Below we continue our illustrated forecast of the exhibits. Our next two issues will be special numbers chiefly devoted to the Show, viz., Thursday, November 16th, The Motor Cycle Buyers' Guide, and November 23rd, Olympia Show report.
The 2½ h.p. Two-stroke Stuart.
The 2½ h.p. two-stroke Stuart motor bicycle which will be shown on the stand of Messrs. R. G. Nye and Co. is manufactured by the well-known engineers Messrs. Stuart, Turner and Co., Shiplake Works, Henley-on-Thames. The most interesting part of the machine is the power unit, since the bicycle part follows lines adopted by most manufacturers. The two-stroke engine, 71 x 75.5 mm., is of the two-port type...
Continued: Stuart Turner & Co.
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1912 Models.
Singer Improvements.
The Singer Company have made it their endeavour to produce as light as possible a 3½ h.p. machine to give lasting satisfaction, and to be fitted with all necessary refinements. From an inspection of one of their 1912 mounts we may say that we consider that they have succeeded admirably.
The engine retains all this year's features, but, as will be seen from the illustration, it has been altered in the timing gear...
Continued: Singer 1912 Models
November 9th, 1911.
1912 Models.
Trump-Jap.
A few days ago Mr. McNab showed us the novel features for the 1912 Trump-Japs. The firm will specialise on two models - a T.T. and a Tourist - both having the 85.5 mm. x 85 mm. J.A.P. engine, but we are told that the 90 mm. x 77.5 mm. engine can be supplied for racing models...
Continued: Trump 1912 Models
Canoelet Sidecar.
The accompanying illustrations show a very original sidecar made by Messrs. Mead and Deakin, 61, Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook. Birmingham... A delivery body is made which is interchangeable with the ordinary sidecar...
Continued: Canoelet Sidecars
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Veloce.
Last week we were shown a most ingenious motor cycle manufactured by the Veloce Co., of Birmingham. The frame is on standard lines, having a dropped top tube, Druid forks, and side flaps to front guard, but the engine and two-speed gear are distinctly novel. The engine has a solid crankshaft supported on one side only by two ball bearings...
Continued: 1912 Veloce
The Brown Motor Bicycle.
It is not surprising that a firm like Brown Bros., Ltd., which has been steadily engaged in the motor cycle industry since 1902, should in 1911 have brought its motor bicycles to such a state of perfection that startling innovations are not needed. There is, however, we understand, to be shortly added to the Brown a two-speed gear and free engine...
Continued: Brown 1912 Models
F.N.
The alterations to the four-cylinder F.N. for 1912 are comparatively few, the machine having given universal satisfaction, the makers have not found it necessary or advisable to make more than a few minor improvements. The magneto machine is provided with a distributer combined with the magneto...
Continued: FN 1912 & 1913
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Indian Improvements.
The Hendee Co., so we were informed by their London manager, Mr. W. H. Wells, have decided to market two Indian models only for 1912, viz., the 3½ h.p. single-cylinder and the 7-9 h.p. twin. The standard models will both have the free engine clutch...
Continued: Indian 1912 Models
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The Midget Bicar.
The Brown Midget Bicar, for the design of which Mr. J. T. Brown, Reading, is responsible, still retains its unusual but wholly successful sheet steel frame, built up on ash stays. The illustration of the ladies' model, now provided with doors to allow easy access to the engine, shows the position in the frame the wood stay takes...
Continued: Midget Bicar
The New Zeniths.
To talk of improvements in the Zenith is to talk of painting the lily. But such a talented designer as Mr. F. W. Barnes is not the sort of man to deny that what he has introduced cannot be brought still nearer perfection. For 1912 he has started an innovation quite as important as the introduction of the Gradua gear...
Continued: Zenith 1912 Models
New Imperial Cycle Co.
The above firm is marketing three entirely new models, these being a 4½ h.p. sidecar machine, a 3½ tourist, and a 2½ lightweight. The sidecar vehicle is very carefully designed, and is the result of long tests. All lugs for brake rods, guides, and sidecar attachments, are brazed to the frame and have a very neat workmanlike appearance. A 4½ h.p. single-cylinder engine....
Continued: New Imperial 1912 Models
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1912 Triumphs.
This week we are enabled to outline the Triumph Cycle Co.'s programme for 1912. The four models which appeared at Olympia last year will be retained, and an additional one, the two-speed machine illustrated and described in our last issue, will be first exhibited to the public gaze at the Show...
Continued: Triumph 1912 Models
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P. and M.
For 1912 the alterations to the P. and M. are of a minor description. The engine dimensions remain unaltered. A foot starter is now fitted which is operated by a pedal on the right side. The pedal, when sharply depressed, revolves a shaft carried on a bush through the 2 to 1 gear box, this shaft being connected to the pedal by a small chain...
Continued: P&M 1912 Models
Illston and Smith
are manufacturing a neat lightweight motor cycle engine of 75 mm. bore x 55 mm. stroke. It is fitted with a mechanically operated inlet valve situated directly over the exhaust valve. The magneto is carried behind the cylinder and is gear-driven...
Continued: PDM-Illston
Forward.
The 1912 twin 2¾ h.p. Forward will have several minor improvements. Instead of having a dropped top tube, the whole frame has been lowered and a straight top tube is employed. The tank, which has been redesigned and made considerably neater, is now carried on two lugs brazed solid to the lower tube...
Continued: Forward Cycle Co
The Motor Cycle November 9th 1911, pp 1173-1181
