Vincent (motorcycle brand)

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Vincent Black Lightning

Vincent (official name: The Vincent HRD Company Ltd./ Stevenage ) was a British motorcycle brand that existed from 1928 to 1955.

history

The brand was named after its founders Philip C. Vincent and Howard R. Davies. In their day, the Vincent machines had a reputation for being the fastest, most expensive, and most exclusive motorcycles available. The most important models had 500 single-cylinder and 1000 V-twin-cylinder engines . The 1000 Black Shadow (55 PS) and Black Lightning (72 PS) were considered the fastest production motorcycles until the late 1960s.

With a Vincent, Rollie Free set the American motorcycle speed record of 150 mph in 1948 . One of Russel Wright driven, with a streamlining provided Black Lightning held from 1955 to 1956 the absolute motorcycle speed record 298 km / h.

To counteract the slump in sales in 1954, Vincent also added two-stroke motorcycles to his range under license from NSU . However, only about 40 of the NSU Vincent 123 cc (NSU Fox) were built in 1955.

The NSU-Vincent 50 cc (NSU-Quickly) sold 20,000 units in one year, but was discontinued because NSU itself took over the production and distribution for Great Britain.

Vincent Comet from 1950 in the Neckarsulm Two-Wheeler Museum
Vincent C Rapide from 1952

With Norvin a motorcycle consisting of is Nor ton -Federbettrahmen and Vin denotes cent engine.

Models produced

  • 1932 250 cc bantam
  • 1934 500 cm³ meteor
  • 1934 500 cc Comet
  • 1934 500 cm³ Comet Special (TT Replica)
  • 1936 1,000 cc Series-A Rapide
  • 1946 1,000 cc Series-B Rapide
  • 1948 500 cc Series-C Meteor
  • 1948 500 cc Series-C Comet
  • 1948 500 cc Series-C Gray Flash
  • 1948 1,000 cc Series-C Rapide
  • 1948 1,000 cc Series-C Black Shadow
  • 1948 1,000 cc Series-C Black Lightning
  • 1949 1,000 cc Series-C White Shadow
  • 1950 500 cc Series-C Red Comet
  • 1953 45 cm³ Firefly (or Power Cycle)
  • 1954 1,000 cm³ "Series-D" Black Knight
  • 1954 1,000 cm³ "Series-D" Black Prince
  • 1955 1,000 cc three wheeler

literature

  • Hugo Wilson: The Lexikon vom Motorrad , Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-01719-9
  • Michael Pfeiffer: Finale: Vincent Black Shadow . In: motorcycle . No. 13 , 2010, ISSN  0027-237X , p. 130-134 .

Web links

Commons : Vincent  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Hicks: The international encyclopedia motorcycles . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02660-5 , pp. 469-470.