The Scott Motorcycle Company

The Scott Motorcycle Co., Ltd.. was an English motorcycle manufacturer that was founded in 1909 by Alfred Angas Scott in Bradford as Scott Engineering Company. However, the company soon moved to Shipley. In 1966, the company was finally closed in Birmingham.

The manufacturer built decades quite successfully only a single engine concept: two-cylinder two -stroke engines with 333, 354, 498, 532 and finally 598 cc in counter-rotating twin arrangement. The cranks of the crank shaft were cantilevered, the flywheel and the primary drive were in the middle. Thus, the engines were quite compact. First, they were air-cooled, but with production soon (ie without water pump) converted to thermosyphon water cooling. The engines were installed inclined forward in frames consisting of straight (not curved ), and therefore steel pipes were regarded as particularly rigid.

There was in the 1920er/1930er-Jahren after Scott was in 1919 resigned from the company, the company name (company) has been changed and but William Cull, management also took exceptions. Thus existed ³ an air- cooled single-cylinder two-stroke engine (1929 ) with 297 cc, but also a water-cooled three-cylinder with 997 cm.

The mid-1930s saw Scott Market Opportunities for Small Aircraft Propulsion. This was justified by the success of the so-called Himmelslaus. From the motorcycle engine so was the air-cooled Scott Flying Squirrel A2S motor ( " Flying Squirrel "). Between 1935 and 1937 about 70 engines were produced.

1950, the company was liquidated after the rather simple engines had been developed only slightly since 1935 and could no longer keep pace with the increase in performance of its competitors. However, investors secured the brand and produced on a small scale until 1966 on. In the 1970s, Scott lived design principles under the brand name Silk on again.

The machines were processed as excellent and very torquey strongly appreciated, but also quite expensive. Special merit of the company is to construct a high-performance two -stroke engine, which is not inferior to the former four-stroke engines in the performance. As a sensation, it was that these two-stroke machines were 1912 and 1913 to win the Tourist Trophy.

Even today, long after the extinction of the brand, old Scott machines can be misconceived as "Oldtimer " by enthusiasts and maintained.