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British Bikes / Excelsior Factory Kings Road Tyseley Brum
« on: June 01, 2021, 05:53:26 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior_Motor_Company
With all the recent chit chat about Excelsiors and Waratahs and assorted other imports into Oz,
I thought I'd have a look at a little booklet published on Excelsior motorcycles.
Excelsior the lost pioneer. Liversidge.
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2ccaff5b-52ee-40ad-8e99-b9e4bdcecdd1_1.0c3765749aeb8a0d7680e3bd9b2462e8.jpeg
Now this budget priced book doesn't claim to be the complete work, and has a nice potted history of the maker,
with a number of b&w pics of varying quality. Many of them as the advertising posters of their time.
What it doesn't cover is the factory side of things postwar, other than a paragraph stating the state of the ex-factory site,
now a Rovex Business Park. The factory advertising gives the address as Kings Road Tyseley, but in fact the factory appears to front
onto Hay Hall Rd in Tyseley Brum . (off Kings Road.)
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.4563032,-1.8414406,3a,75y,64.57h,96.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_tzxbcw0V0UDsj2WEsDiA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
BSA and Britax were involved in the ownership in the final years, getting but a very brief mention.
Anyone got a photo of the factory operating as a motorcycle manufacturer in its heyday ?
Or have any texts on who the management or employees may have been postwar ??
Or former employees memoirs ?
With all the recent chit chat about Excelsiors and Waratahs and assorted other imports into Oz,
I thought I'd have a look at a little booklet published on Excelsior motorcycles.
Excelsior the lost pioneer. Liversidge.
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2ccaff5b-52ee-40ad-8e99-b9e4bdcecdd1_1.0c3765749aeb8a0d7680e3bd9b2462e8.jpeg
Now this budget priced book doesn't claim to be the complete work, and has a nice potted history of the maker,
with a number of b&w pics of varying quality. Many of them as the advertising posters of their time.
What it doesn't cover is the factory side of things postwar, other than a paragraph stating the state of the ex-factory site,
now a Rovex Business Park. The factory advertising gives the address as Kings Road Tyseley, but in fact the factory appears to front
onto Hay Hall Rd in Tyseley Brum . (off Kings Road.)
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.4563032,-1.8414406,3a,75y,64.57h,96.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_tzxbcw0V0UDsj2WEsDiA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
BSA and Britax were involved in the ownership in the final years, getting but a very brief mention.
Anyone got a photo of the factory operating as a motorcycle manufacturer in its heyday ?
Or have any texts on who the management or employees may have been postwar ??
Or former employees memoirs ?