Rex-Acme

Rex-Acme
legal form
founding	1922
resolution	1933
Reason for dissolution	closure
Seat	Birmingham and Coventry , United Kingdom
management	William and Harold Williamson et al. a.
Branch	Bicycle manufacturer, motorcycle manufacturer

Rex-Acme , was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Birmingham and Coventry from 1922 to 1933 .

history

The original Rex Motorcycles company was founded in Birmingham in 1899 by the brothers William and Harold Williamson , and in 1902 merged with the bicycle manufacturer Allard & Co , but the company remained Rex . In 1904 the company began building motorcycles. The company's founders had to leave the company in 1911. In 1919 the motorcycle manufacturer Acme in Coventry was taken over and in 1922 both companies were merged to form Rex-Acme . The new seat was Coventry. Wal Handley raced and popularized Rex-Acme motorcycles. He even became director of the company, but left in 1928 to race other motorcycles. Handley drove motorcycles with 173-cm³- Blackburne - cylinder engine and 1926 V2 engines with 498 cc displacement. After that, the brand lost its importance and in 1932 Rex-Acme was taken over by the sidecar manufacturer Mills-Fullford , which ceased production of the Rex-Acme motorcycles in 1933.

Other racing drivers on Rex-Acme were Henry Tyrell-Smith , Arthur Taylor , Charles Needham , Hans Hasenauer , Felice Bonetto , Karl Machu and Otto Cecconi .

technology

From the company merger in 1922, the motorcycles had displacements from 173 to 746 cm³. There were side and overhead built-in engines from Blackburne, side-operated JAP engines and even a 348 cc pusher engine from Barr & Stroud . In 1928 there was a model with an overhead MAG engine with a displacement of 346 cm³.

The 1929 model range consisted of 346 cc ohv models (both from JAP, one with a 74 mm bore and 80 mm stroke and the other with a 70 mm bore and 90 mm stroke, also available as double port engines), a 746 cc V2 - JAP engine, two side-controlled 496 cc single-cylinder models from JAP or Blackburne, two side-controlled 300 cc single-cylinder models with cheaper frames and engines from JAP or Blackburne, two similar models with 346 cc, the Speed ​​King with overhead steering 346 cc -Blackburne engines in two versions and also two versions with 496 cc Blackburne single cylinder engines. In addition, there was a Super Sport model with 172-cm³- Villiers - two-stroke engine .

After that, Rex-Acme also built in MAG and Sturmey-Archer motors.

Individual evidence

1. ^ British Motorcycle Charitable Trust . ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 5, 2011. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rex . IanChadwick.com. Retrieved December 10, 2006.
3. ^ The Machines . British Motorcycle Charitable Trust. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2006. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Erwin Tragatsch (editor): The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles . New Burlington Books, Quarto Publishing 1988. Revised edition. ISBN 0-906286-07-7 . P. 260.