It has 20” wheels, what size tyres would it have been fitted with? I recently acquired a 1951 Excelsior Ultimate in boxes. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. There was also an Excelsior car built in Belgium. Other products of the post-war era included outboard motors and marine engine gearboxes, and Villiers-powered industrial trolleys.īerkeley SE328 and T60 Sports Cars also used Excelsior Villiers engines.īoth the United States and Germany built motorcycles bearing the Excelsior badge, but these were not related to the British marque. The manufacture of car and motorcycle accessories.
It was withdrawn in 1960, production slipped from low to zero by 1965, the company continuing with In 1957 Excelsior produced the 98cc Skutabike, and in 1959 released the Monarch, a rebadged DKR scooter with an Excelsior 147cc engine. Their best seller in this period was the Consort, achieving a peak production of 10,000 units annually. In the lean years following the second war racing and luxury machines were sidelined in favour of relatively inexpensive two-strokes, the flagship being the Talisman twin powered by a 243cc 4speed Villiers. During the interwar period they obtainedĬonsiderable competition success, particularly with perhaps their most famous model, the Manxman, introduced in 1935 and available in capacities of 246cc and 349cc.ĭuring the war they produced the Welbike for the armed forces, a tiny folding motorcycle designed to be dropped by parachute for use by special forces. Walker & Sons and moved from Coventry to Tysley, Birmingham, next door to AKD, where they continued building motorcycles with power units by Blackburne, JAP and Villiers. After the Great War the company was taken over by R.
Minerva, De Dion, MMC and possibly a Condor 850cc single. The Excelsior factory produced a wide range of machines with engines from most major manufacturers. If you require more information or help then you might like to try posting a discussion topic on our web forum.Originally built by Bayliss, Thomas and Company, Excelsior motorcycles were produced between 18. The table below provides a year-by-year index of the models of motorcycle produced by Greeves which may help you to identify which model you have.
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