File:Flickr - ronsaunders47 - THE SUN MOTORCYCLE. OVERLANDER.250cc TWO STROKE TWIN. UK 1957-1961..jpg
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The Sun Cycle & Fittings Co. Ltd. was a British manufacturer of motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles. The company was based in Aston, Birmingham. The company was founded as James Parkes & Son, a brass foundry producing lamp fittings and various other products. In 1885 the company started to manufacture frames and fittings for the bicycle trade. In 1907 the company became The Sun Cycle & Fittings Company Limited, and around the same time, began making its own bicycles. The first Sun motorcycle was produced in 1911. The company was taken over by Tube Investments in 1958, and in 1961 the factory was closed and production moved to the Raleigh factory at Nottingham. In 1957 the companies answer to the decline in lightweight sales were two new models with new frames, the 200cc Century and the 250cc 4 speed Overlander, known as the Overlander Twin. The Overlander was a vain attempt to make a better lightweight than any of the many other manufacturers that made Villiers engined lightweights. Both were too little, too late. In the mid fifties there was an invasion of foreign motor scooters into this country with a considerable downturn in the sales of small British motorcycles. |
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| Source | THE SUN MOTORCYCLE. OVERLANDER.250cc TWO STROKE TWIN. UK 1957-1961. |
| Author | Ronald Saunders from Warrington, UK |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by ronsaunders47 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/46781500@N00/5383548095. It was reviewed on 26 October 2012 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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