British Motor Industry Heritage Trust - Nick Baldwin Collection
 

Motorcycles

1885 Daimler built first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine
 
1894 Hildebrand and Wolfmuller built the world's first production motorcycle
 
1903 Harley Davidson company formed
 
1905 First all-British motorcycle, Triumph, producedTriumph
 
1919 Legendary Brough Superior introducedBrough-Superior
 
1946 First Vespa scooters made by PiaggioVespa-P125X
 
1969 Honda CB750, the first mass produced 4-cylinder motorbike, was launched
 
1992 BMW C1 partly enclosed commuter bike was introducedBMW-C1-commuter-bike
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