Lloyd Motorcycles

• W.A. Lloyd produced motorcycles from 1902 to 1903.

• There were several Lloyd firms, but this was the earliest and was founded by W. A. Lloyd 

• They used their own 2 hp engine and primitive fittings.

• W. A. Lloyd, who had been involved with W. J. Lloyd at Quadrant, later went on to produce the Dreadnought from 1915 to 1922.

Report from the 1902 Stanley Show

There are indications that this firm also built the Governor (or Governor-Villiers) specifically for the New Zealand market.

From Graces Guide:

• W. A. Lloyds Cycle Fittings Ltd, of Clyde Works, Birmingham.

  1879 Established, presumably as W. A. Lloyd and Co.

  1897 Name changed to W. A. Lloyds Cycle Fittings

  1898-1903 Annual reports in Coventry Archives

  1908 Offered men's and ladies' lightweight racers as well as the usual range of Lloyd cycles.

  1903 Made motorcycles

  1905 Made a three-wheeler

  Presumably later became W. A. Lloyds Cycles at Clyde Works, Droitwich.

Graces continues on another page:

• W. A. Lloyds Cycles

  W. A. Lloyd's Cycles, of Clyde Works, Droitwich, maker of cycle fittings.

  1879 Established, as W. A. Lloyd and Co

  Later was W. A. Lloyds Cycle Fittings

  1940 At the same address was W. A. Lloyd Cycles, maker of cycles

  Perhaps connected with W. A. Lloyds Alloys, also of Droitwich.

Source: Graces Guide

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