Victoria Motor and Cycle Co. Ltd.,

Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.

Unrelated to the German motorcycle company of the same name, the Victoria company of Dennistoun, Glasgow, was to become Scotland’s biggest motorcycle manufacturer, and by the outbreak of war in 1914, had developed a wide range of machines fitted with Precision engines made by FE Baker.  After the war, production continued using mainly Villiers, JAP, and Blackburne engines, until the company’s demise in 1926.

The "New Victoria" Cycle Manufacturing Co. of Scotland was based

in Craigpark Street and 367 Alexandra Parade in Dennistoun, and

had premises at 71 Cathedral Street and 78-82 Hanover Street in the

centre of Glasgow. Customers could watch their bicycles being made there.