MOTOR-CYCLING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 May 1927, Page 15

MOTOR-CYCLING

BRITISH SUPREMACY. ENORMOUS PRODUCTION.

Year by year the popularity of the motor-cycle as a. means of transport has increased apace. Its handiness, efficiency. .and reliability are generally recognised, with the result that ill Great Britain a large industry .has been built up which .specialises in the production of first-class motor cycles. This is only to be expected, .since Britain is the largest motor-cycling nation in the world. In .spite of the presence of other efficient means of economical transport.. The population of Great Britain is approximately half that, of the United States of America, yet the number of motor-cycles .in use in the latter country Is only about one-quarter the total of those in England, Scotland, and Wales. British motor-cycle manufacturers number about one hundred, and their combined production represents the enormous total of 100,000 machines per annum—an average of 1000 motor-cycles per factory. The output of several of these organisations reaches a total exceeding 10,000 complete machines per annum, while 250,000 is the figure attained by one factory alone.

Quality and efficiency am the keynotes of British motor-cycle construction. The national pride of Britishers in high-eliaiss workmanship and materials is reflected, in every part of the machine. With s<o many manufacturers in Great Britain striving for their productions to he acknowledged as “the best,” progress much inevitably be greater and sounder than .if conditions were such that competition was not present.