Motorcycles Bown Manufacturing Company









as manufacturing own range of motorcycles, company offered equipment other makes of bike: motorcycle hubs, rim brakes, ball-bearing clutches , likes.



1903-1905 
had 492cc single-cylinder engine shaft drive rear wheel. production on limited scale


1914-1916 
aeolus small 147cc villiers powered motorcycles
1919-1924 
the aelous rebranded bownian.


1919-1921 
jap powered 248cc motorcycle , 348cc blackbourne powered machine, not mentioned after 1921


1919 - 1923 
branded bown villiers, extant versions of villiers 269cc touring model still survive machine equipped two-speed gearbox, drip-feed lubrication , bosch magneto. had aluminium footboards, saxon forks , miller lighting set. exhaust included aluminium damper box.

a contemporary review 1922 show @ olympia, london reported:



several alternatives offered makers of bown motorcycles, blackburne, j.a.p. , villiers-engined models being shown upon stand. general specification apart engine similar in each case. these machines laid down , constructed on lines sound, solid, , practical, , ample provision made silencing, exhaust pipes taken right out of machine. internal expanding brampton front wheel brakes may fitted alternative ordinary rim brake, , brampton fork centrally placed tension spring has been standardised. adjustment provided front driving chain gear box.










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