Vincent Motorcycles
Vincent (official name: . The Vincent HRD Company Ltd. / Stevenage ) was a British motorcycle brand that was founded in 1928 and existed until 1955.
History
The brand was named after owners Philip C. Vincent and Howard R. Davies. In their time, the Vincent- machines had a reputation for being the fastest, most expensive and most exclusive motorcycles that were for sale. The most important models had 500cc single-cylinder and 1000cc V - twin cylinder engines. The 1000 Black Shadow (55 hp) and Black Lightning (72 PS) were not until the late 1960s as the fastest production motorcycles.
With Vincent U.S. America American motorcycle speed record of 242 km / h was set up in 1948 by Rollie Free. One of Russel Wright Mileage, provided with a streamlining Black Lightning stopped 1955-1956 the absolute motorcycle land speed record with 298 km / h
To counteract the slump in sales in 1954, Vincent took under license from NSU also two-stroke motorcycles in their programs. From the NSU -Vincent 123 cc ( NSU Fox) in 1955 only about 40 pieces but were built.
The NSU -Vincent 50 cc ( NSU Quickly) came to 20,000 units sold in a year, but was discontinued because NSU even the manufacture and distribution for Great Britain took over.