Brief History of the Simplex Marques
Italy, Holland and England all had Simplex brands.
The Dutch Simplex was made betwween 1902 and 1968. Early machines were
fitted with Fafnir, MAG and Minerva engines,
Motosacoche
in the early twenties, and from the mid 1920s utilised both Blackburne
and Bradshaw power units. In the late 1930s they also used Villiers (including
a watercooled version) and Sachs twostrokes..
English Simplex machines were 105cc twostrokes for use on bicycles,
and were made from 1919 to 1922.
Italian Simplex motorcycles were built by Luigi Pellini between 1921
an 1950 using his own OHV engines of 149cc, 174cc, 210cc and 496cc, and
after the war similar machines with 148cc and 248cc engines.
There was also an American Simplex made from the late 1930s to the late
1960s, powered by small industrial engines including Clinton.
Sept 06. Bob McGrath of Australia writes:
There was an Australian made Simplex also. It was nothing exciting
merely being just assembled bike from the 1930's with a Villiers engine,
and the usual makes of forks, wheels, gearbox ,etc. To my knowledge none
survive and its many years since I saw the last one.
Fri Nov 10 2006
kenevil64
hotmail
need parts to restore
1950-1955 american 150cc (I'm guessing)
A good friend of mine has a simplex that belonged to his father. He
would like to restore it and I am trying to held. If there is a catalog
where I may obtain parts it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
Kenneth Constant
Michigan, 49038
Sat Jul 15 2006
whhpost
Simplex Ala d'Oro WANTED
Hello, I live in USA and I am looking to buy a 1930-36 Simplex Ala d'Oro
175-210cc motorcycle made in Turin, Italy. Please contact me at: whhpost
Bill Hooben
Massachusetts, USA
.......
Hello, I 've sent a scanned image of a restored '37 210cc Simplex Ala
d'Oro. This is exactly the model I'm looking for. I hope you can use it.
The bike in the image was from an Italian dealers website ( http://www.motoold.it
). The bike was sold in 2004, I think. These are pretty rare machines,
even in Italy where almost all of them still reside. I think they never
made more than 300 a year in the 30's ... if 20-30 still exist, I'd be
surprised.
I am looking for this bike because it had an attractive and compact
unit-construction engine which was modern for its day. Italian motorcycles
in the '30's were in many ways more advanced than British machines.
Cheers,
Bill Hooben
Wed Feb 01 2006
dreamwalker1452yahoo
1948 Simplex motorcycle
I'd like to find out info on this make/model which we recently purchased.
It's in great shape and runs!
Also, would be interested in knowing a value on this bike.
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005
subject: SIMPLEX
Email: jan at roden.nl
message: Simplex made motorbikes from 1899 (?) to about 1950, by then
actually considered mopeds. They were at one point the largest motorbike
factory of holland. Simplex was based in amsterdam and also made cars.
(Not to be confused by the german and us simplex).
If you have a query about Simplex Motorcycles, or wish to share some
information about these classic British, Dutch and Italian machines, please
contact
us!
