Watsonian squire
Watsonian-Squire is an English vehicle manufacturer from Moreton-in-Marsh , which specializes in motorcycle combinations and motorcycle trailers. Watsonian is the world's oldest surviving sidecar manufacturer.
The company was founded in Birmingham in 1912 by Thomas Frederick Watson , who then invented the folding sidecar. The company was named "The Watsonian Folding Sidecar Co". In 1946 the sidecar Meteor appeared and is still being built today. Eric Oliver became the first team world champion on Norton in 1949 with a Watsonian sidecar. In the 1950s, Watsonian was the largest sidecar manufacturer in the world; according to the company, there were over 80,000 Watsonian sidecars on English roads in 1955. In 1954, Watsonian presented the large Monaco sidecar , some of which was made with fiberglass-reinforced plastic . Watsonian sidecars are easy to recognize by the frame with surrounding tubes. In 1989 Watsonian merged with the other English sidecar manufacturer Squire, which had existed since 1972, to form "Watsionan-Squire Ltd." The model range is now divided into sidecars of the brand Watsonian and Squire.
Others
In the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , the protagonist escapes in the sidecar made by the manufacturer Watsonian.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ MOTORRAD Catalog 2016, p. 256.
- ↑ a b c watsonian-squire.de History (accessed on December 5, 2014)
- ^ Stefan Knittel: Motorcycle Lexicon. BLV Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-405-12226-0 , p. 119.
- ↑ Edmund Peikert, Harald Grote: Self-made motorcycle teams. Bernhard Götz Verlag, Roigheim, 2002, ISBN 3-9802242-2-8 , p. 52
- ↑ watsonian-squire.com ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Sidecars (accessed December 5, 2014)
- ↑ Hagrid / Harry Potter and Watsonian
