This Is What You Should Know About Velocette Motorcycles

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This Is What You Should Know About Velocette
Motorcycles
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• Velocette, one of Birminghams many motorcycle
  manufacturers, was a small, family-run company
  that sold almost as many hand-built motorcycles
  during the course of its operation as the
  enormous BSA and Norton businesses produced in
  great numbers. The company, which was well-known
  for the calibre of its goods, was always in the
  picture in international motorcycle racing from
  the middle of the 1920s to the 1950s, culminating
  in two World Championship titles (19491950 350
  cc) and its illustrious and still-standing (for
  single-cylinder, 500 cc machines) 24-hour record
  at over 100 mph (161 km/h).

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Foundation

• John Goodman (born Johannes Gütgemann later
  known as John Taylor before formally changing his
  name to Goodman) and William Gue established the
  business in 1905 under the name Taylor, Gue
  Ltd. Veloce was its first motorcycle. John
  Taylor founded Veloce Limited later that year to
  manufacture cycles and other Velocette vintage
  motorcycle parts. When Veloce Ltd first started
  making four-stroke motorcycles, they used Belgian
  Kelecom engines.

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Velocette M Series

• To reduce production costs and create a more
  inexpensive motorcycle, the business chose to
  launch a new line of overhead valve (OHV)
  machines in 1933. It was decided that a more
  straightforward OHV design would be quicker to
  make and need less trained labour to assemble
  because the K series was expensive to produce and
  required selective hand installation of the
  shaft-and-bevel camshaft drive. The first of
  these new machines was the MOV, which utilised a
  250 cc engine with dimensions that were square
  (68 mm bore and 68 mm stroke). It had a brisk
  performance for the period (78 mph or 126 km/h),
  was an instant sales success, and proved to be a
  dependable vehicle with outstanding road manners.

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Velocette K Series

• Veloce realised in the early 1920s that it needed
  a new machine with advanced specifications in
  order to expand as a business. As a result, it
  created an overhead camshaft (OHC) 350 cc engine,
  later known as the K series and released in
  1925. After a year of teething problems with this
  new design, Veloce entered slightly modified K
  models into races at Brooklands and the Isle of
  Man TT. The new engines dependability and smooth
  running qualities led to a long string of
  victories in these races and the introduction of
  a production racing model, the KTT, which was
  manufactured between 1928 and 1949. The first
  motorbike in production to use a positive-stop,
  foot-actuated gearchange was the 1929 KTT, added
  by a vintage Norton motorcycle parts manufacturer.
  

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• The Velocette KSS (super sports), KTS (touring
  sports), KTP (twin exhaust ports), KN (normal),
  and a few variants were the roadster types that
  were created from this first model K. In 1935,
  the KSS Mk2 engine, which had an entirely
  enclosed aluminium cylinder head, was introduced.
  Up until 1948, when the final KSS Mk.2 variants
  with rigid frames and Dowty air-sprung telescopic
  forks were made, the OHC engine series was still
  used in roadsters. The innovative use of
  stroboscopic lighting allowed very precise valve
  timing. The manufacturer quickly created racing
  models to compete in the Isle of Man TT after the
  K series showed an excellent turn of speed and
  dependability.

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Velocette Two-Strokes

• The buying public ignored the K series when
  Veloce took over since they were accustomed to
  the Velocette label and associated it with
  high-quality goods. All ensuing versions were
  given the Velocette moniker once more. Percy and
  Eugene Goodman, his sons, joined John in 1916.
  Veloce made pricey, superior two-stroke bikes of
  (nominally) 250 cc between 1913 and 1925. These
  motorcycles earned a great reputation and were
  entered in contests like the Isle of Man TT,
  where they had considerable success. The
  single-cylinder machines stood out from the
  offerings of other manufacturers thanks to their
  many cutting-edge innovations, like an oil pump
  that was throttle-controlled.

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