Excelsior Motor Company

Bayliss, Thomas & Company Excelsior Motor Company Ltd.
legal form	Limited
founding	1874
resolution	1964
Seat	Tyseley , Birmingham
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Excelsior Motor Company Ltd. , previously Bayliss, Thomas & Company , was a British manufacturer of bicycles , motorcycles , automobiles and engines .

Company history

The company Bayliss, Thomas & Company in 1874 in Coventry established for the production of bicycles. In 1896 motorcycle production was added. Automobiles were first made between 1904 and 1905. The brand name was Excelsior . In 1920 the name was changed to Excelsior Motor Company Ltd. and moving to Tyseley near Birmingham . Between 1922 and 1929 automobiles were again produced, which were marketed as Bayliss-Thomas . Motorcycle production ended in 1964. Excelsior-Britax became the successor company.

vehicles

motorcycles

At the beginning of the 1950s, Excelsior built the TT 1 with a two-cylinder two-stroke engine, displacement 246 cm³ (bore 50 mm, stroke 62 mm) and four-speed gearbox with foot shift. The engine developed 10.2 hp at 4500 rpm. The chassis was a frame made of seamlessly drawn steel tubes with a telescopic fork and straight rear suspension in-house production; Tires 3.00–19. In Germany the TT 1 was offered for 2235.00 DM. The price was thus well above the German brands. In addition to the TT 1, there was a sports model S / TT 1 with 14.5 hp for 2,435.00 DM.

Excelsior motorcycles were also used in races. Among other things, the English driver Sydney Alfred Crabtree won the 1928 German Grand Prix for motorcycles on the Nürburgring with an Excelsior-Jap in the class up to 250 cc. He drove the 13 laps on the entire distance from the north and south loop or 367.439 km in 4: 08: 01.3 hours, which corresponds to an average of 88.88 km / h. L. C. Crabtree also took second place on Excelsior-Jap in the class up to 175 cm³³.

Automobiles

1904-1905

These were three-wheeled vehicles. The engine developed 4.5 hp .

1922-1929

→ Main article : Bayliss-Thomas

Engine deliveries

The following companies used built-in motors from Excelsior: Berkeley Cars , Bonallack & Sons , Coronet Cars , Electrical Engineering Construction Company , Frisky , Opperman Limited , Russon Cars and Mascot from Sweden.

250 cc Excelsior Manxman racing machine from 1936

Motorcycle racing

European motorcycle championship

In the motorcycle championship Excelsior get four drivers' title.

 Syd Crabtree (2)

• European champion in the 250 cm³ class: 1930
• European champion in the 350 cm³ combination class: 1928

 Eric Fernihough (1)

• European champion in the 175 cm³ class: 1931

 Henry Tyrell-Smith (1)

• European champion in the 250 cm³ class: 1936

Isle of Man TT

The manufacturer achieved a total of five victories in the internationally renowned road races on the Isle of Man .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ Catalog 100 Motorcycles . Publishing house for trade and economy - Müller & Co., Munich 1952.
4. ↑ Thora Hornung: 50 years Nürburgring . Görres-Verlag, Koblenz.