Motor cycles: history and developmentH.M. Stationery Office, 1955 - Motorcycles |
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3-speed 4-speed gearbox adjustable air-cooled cylinder air-cooled engine aluminium attached automatic ball-bearings belt bicycle frame bolted bore Bowden wire brake Brown & Barlow c.c. capacity camshaft carburettor chain choke tube clutch coil compression connecting rods contact breaker controlled countershaft crank crankcase crankshaft cycle cylinder head detachable diam Dion-Bouton drive enclosed exhaust valve fins fitted flange flywheel front forks front wheel gear ratios gearbox gudgeon pin handlebar lever high-tension magneto horizontal ignition incorporated inlet valve kick starter layshaft Lent by Messrs magneto mainshaft MOTOR BICYCLE motorcycle engines mounted operated overhead valves patented pedal petrol piston Plate Presented by Messrs pulley rear wheel rocker roller roller chain rotated running screwed sectioned example shaft side single-cylinder sleeve sparking plug spindle spray carburettor spring fork sprocket stroke tank top tube tricycle two-stroke engine tyres Velocette vertical Villiers Villiers Engineering