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Scott Motor Cycle Co.


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    • Scott Motorcycle Company

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    • Has Affiliation

    • Descriptor

        Business enterprises

    • Associated Locale

        Great Britain

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      (lcsh) Scott motorcycle--Design and construction

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  • Sources

    • found: The book of the Scott : instructions in the care and management of Scott motor cycles, 1948:colophon (Scott Motor Cycle Co.)
    • found: Motor sport, Aug. 1930:p.20 (Scott Motor Cycle Co., Saltaire)
    • found: The Motor cycle, 11 Dec. 1919:p.9 (Scott Motor Cycle Co., Ltd., Saltaire, Yorks.)
    • found: Yowl : the journal of the Scott Owners' Club, Jan. 1975:p.24 (Scott Motor Cycle Co., 558 Bromford Lane, Stechford, Birmingham)
    • found: Scott Owners' Club website, viewed 24 Sept. 2014:under Marque history (Scott motorcycle was created by Alfred Angas Scott (1874-1923); the first Scott motorcycles were manufactured under contract by a Bradford-based car firm called Jowett; production moved to Saltaire, Yorkshire, in about 1910; the company went into voluntary liquidation in 1950 and was bought by Matt Holder who restarted Scott motorcycle manufacture in Birmingham; these Birmingham Scotts remained in production until the end of the 1960s; the George Silk Scott, launched in the 1970s, was produced until 1979)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed 24 Sept. 2014(The Scott Motorcycle Company; owned by Scott Motors (Saltaire) Limited, Shipley, West Yorkshire, England; producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry; founded by Alfred Angas Scott in 1908 as the Scott Engineering Company in Bradford, Yorkshire)
    • found: Grace's Guide website, viewed 24 Sept. 2014(Scott Motor Cycle Co; Alfred Angas Scott built his first engine in 1901; motorcycle manufactured by the Jowett brothers in 1908 before alternative arrangements were made in Bradford to create the Scott Engineering Co.; after World War II, the firm went into voluntary liquidation and was sold to Aerco Jig and Tool Co of Birmingham, a company owned by Matt Holder who was a Scott fan; Scott left the company he founded in 1915 and, after World War I, formed the Scott Autocar Co in Bradford)
    • found: My Learning website, viewed 24 Sept. 2014:under Inventions in transport from Bradford (Alfred Angas Scott, an engineer, was born in Manningham, Bradford on 5 October 1874; in 1908 Jowett Motor Manufacturing Company agreed to manufacture Scott's motorcycle; only six Scotts were built by Jowett's as the following year Scott formed the Scott Engineering Company Ltd. and opened a new factory in Saltaire; manufacture of motorcycles continued here until 1950)

  • Editorial Notes

    • [Unable to identify with The Scott Motor Cycle Company Ltd incorporated on 19 Oct. 2010, and Scott Motors (Saltaire) Limited incorporated 17 June 2014, both in Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan]

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  • Change Notes

    • 2014-09-24: new
    • 2014-09-25: revised

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