A-Z of British motorcycles

We are pleased to bring you the first in a series covering British motorcycles of the last 120 years! In this A-Z we will be concentrating on a selection of the smaller and lesser known (and, in some cases, forgotten) companies that produced motorcycles in this country, rather than names like AJS and Ariel. We couldn’t do justice to the history of those manufacturers in just a few paragraphs and many of you will already be familiar with the story of those marques. Nor do we have the space to list every single manufacturer, but each of these companies, however short-lived, contributed to the great story of British motorcycling and deserve to be recognised. This month, we start off with the first half of the letter A!