A Brief History of the Marque: Humber
English firm Humber built three-wheeled forecars and four-wheelers
as well as the motorcycles which they manufactured from 1902 to 1930. Initially
their machines were built under Phelon & Moore licence using a single
cylinder P&M engine and two-speed chaindrive transmission, but later
examples had their own engines of 496cc, 596cc and 746cc. These included
sidevalve flat-twins which were built up until about 1924, subsequent machines
having only single-cylinder 347cc engines with either sidevalve, ohv or
overhead cam configuration. Competition success included a win in the 1911
Junior TT.
Coventry based Humber is mentioned at CWN
The Grampian Transport Museum has a Beeston Humber
Beeston Humbers are discussed in Motor
Cyclists on Tour, 1903
Tue Jun 26 2007
emac<at>metroweb.co.za
Humber Bikes
± 1911 200cc pedal bike
Would you be able to date my bike that I'm busy restoring. The engine
number is 531.
Your help would be much appreciated
Johannesburg RSA
Sun Jan 07 2007
alasa6
msn
humber motorcycle
flat twin 600
do you have any details about the rear quick release axel and rear
cog from this model, regards alex
dublin, ireland
Fri Dec 15 2006
infotalkback.co.uk
Adverts & Posters
Humber, cycles etc
Hi, my company is about to move into the ground floor of the old cycle
works in Beeston. We are having the brickwork restored and we want to embrace
the tradition and history around the new offices with photographs, posters
of Humber machines. Can you help? Thanks, Alan Harvey
Nottingham
There is a company in the US motorcycle-memories.com
who
do some wonderful reproduction posters from that era, tho mostly they are
of American bikes. Ed.
Sun Jun 11 2006
fworxhotmail
motorcycles from Russia
Humber 1914
Here is Humber 1914 from the Moscow technical museum collection. Photo
taken September 2001.
Sergey Riabsev
Moscow
Fri May 19 2006
ashleyblairxtra.co.nz
Contact with owners
Humber 3 1/2 hp motorcycles
Hi
I'm keen to make contact with anyone who has a Humber motorcycle of
around 1912 -1915 to find out the original colours. I have a 1914 model
that was restored in 1952 but the colour is not original. Attached photo
shows Humber with current colour scheme.
Ashley Blair
Pukerua Bay
New Zealand
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