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• Steyr-Daimler-Puch
  ...oken up in 1990, with Steyr Tractor being sold to Case Corporation, Puch's motorcycle division going to Piaggio, Steyr Mannlicher producing weapons, and Steyr's [[Category:Defunct bus manufacturers]]
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• Kei car
  ...en most Japanese could not afford a full-sized car yet had enough to buy a motorcycle. To promote the growth of the car industry, as well as to offer an alternat Because the regulations only restrict physical size and engine power, manufacturers have introduced many advanced technologies to the class. As a result, kei c
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• Rotax
  ...Helicon liquid-cooled, four-stroke, fuel-injected 72˚ V-Twin for the Buell Motorcycle Company. [[Category:Kart manufacturers]]
  2 KB (302 words) - 05:19, 23 July 2010
• NSU
  ...otorcycle-reviews/1956-nsu-supermax.aspx|title=1956 NSU Supermax|publisher=Motorcycle Classics|accessdate=2009-08-24|date=Premier Issue|author=Ric Anderson}}</re ...gned and produced the famous Kettenkrad, the NSU HK101, a [[half-track]]ed motorcycle with the engine of the [[Opel]] Olympia.
  8 KB (1,269 words) - 10:17, 20 September 2010
• Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation
  * Shanghai-Xingfu Motorcycle *[[List of automobile manufacturers#China|List of Chinese automakers]]
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• Excelsior Motor Company
  ...was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own ‘motor-bicycle’ in 1896. ...t went on to produce a wide range of machines with engines from most major manufacturers. In 1914, they offered a JAP-powered twin. A deal to supply the Russian I
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• Moretti
  ...of his own design and with agreements with other companies. Using the same motorcycle engines, Giovanni Moretti also dabbled in [[microcars]] in the late 1920's [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Italy]]
  3 KB (443 words) - 05:36, 19 February 2007
• Puch
  ...-how was always better than its marketing and commercial success. The Puch motorcycle company was sold to Piaggio, maker of the Vespa, in 1987 and still produces [[Category:Motorcycle manufacturers of Austria]]
  5 KB (731 words) - 05:16, 19 February 2007
• AJS
  ...pany '''A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd''', from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records, and after the firm was sold the name continued to be used by ...took place in the Stockport factory used by [[Willys Overland Crossley]]. Motorcycle production moved to Plumstead.
  8 KB (1,243 words) - 08:01, 19 August 2008
• DKW
  ...real beginning of the DKW brand: by the 1930s, DKW was the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer. In 1932, DKW merged with [[Audi]], [[Horch]] and [[Wanderer|W ...rst as a spare-part provider, but soon to take up production of the RT 125 motorcycle and a newly developed delivery van, called a '''Schnellaster F800'''. Their
  13 KB (2,028 words) - 23:16, 29 August 2008
• Brooks Stevens
  ...ecycles in order to influence the buying patterns of consumers in favor of manufacturers), he did not invent it but rather coined the term and defined it. Stevens ...tudebaker ceased production. He then designed the classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle. All Harleys since, including models in production now, are based on Steve
  3 KB (492 words) - 13:16, 2 December 2008
• Bond Cars Ltd
  ...ylinder Villiers 4T (optional on the Mark G). The engines were essentially motorcycle units and therefore had no reverse gear. However, this was a minimal inconv [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
  3 KB (499 words) - 19:49, 24 June 2010
• Swallow Sidecar Company
  William Walmsley had previously been manufacturing motorcycle sidecars and bolting them to reconditioned motorbikes. Lyons had recognised [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
  4 KB (526 words) - 08:39, 11 September 2007
• Ariel (vehicle)
  {{List of Ariel (vehicle) Models}}:''This article is about the Ariel motorcycle and motor car company, for the modern sports car manufacturer see [[Ariel L '''Ariel''' was a bicycle, motorcycle and [[automobile]] marque manufactured in Birmingham, England. Car producti
  9 KB (1,340 words) - 02:32, 18 December 2010
• Anzani
  ...h Anzani Engineering Company''' concentrating on small engines and car and motorcycle powerplants. They supplied [[AC Cars]] with the 1496cc [[side-valve]] four [[Category:Motor vehicle engine manufacturers]]
  4 KB (539 words) - 02:59, 11 April 2010
• Radical
  The company's first car, the 1100 Clubsport, was based on a Kawasaki motorcycle engine placed inside a small open-cockpit chassis which could house two adu ...car is built on a spaceframe chassis, and uses a variety of Powertec-tuned motorcycle engines for power. Turbocharging is also available on the motors for even
  9 KB (1,360 words) - 12:33, 18 December 2010
• Cooper Car Company
  ...as merely a practical matter at the time. Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they believed it was more convenient to have the engine in the back ...ary barracks and aircraft factories, and fitted with a series of different motorcycle engines, Cooper 500s won 64 out of 78 major races between 1951 and 1954. It
  11 KB (1,654 words) - 07:16, 19 February 2007
• Geely Automobile
  ...rs, then moved to manufacturing decoration materials in 1989, and by 1992, motorcycle parts. In 1994, Geely began manufacturing motorcycles. By 1996, Geely had [[List of automobile manufacturers#China|Chinese auto makers]]
  7 KB (903 words) - 17:05, 1 May 2010
• Singer
  ...makers in Coventry. In 1901 they moved into motor tricycles and bicycles. Motorcycle manufacture would continue until the outbreak of war in 1914. In 1905 they [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
  4 KB (623 words) - 05:06, 19 February 2007
• Balance shaft
  ...the two banks to give an effective 60 degree difference, but recently many manufacturers have found it more economical to adapt the balance shaft concept, using a s Other manufacturers producing engines with one or two balance shafts include(d):
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