FROM  The Glasgow Museum of Transport   LIBRARY

 

with thanks to Bob James, voluntary archivist, who also turned up a picture of a 1921 Victoria on the SCRAN website.

 

 

Bob has discovered this interesting relative of the Victoria in a book by in Michael Worthington-Williams entitled “The Scottish Motor Industry” published by Shire Books.

 

 

Royal Scot (1922-24)
Donaldson and Kelso (later Knightswood Motors Limited), Strathcona Drive, Anniesland, Glasgow (later 98 West George Street, Glasgow). All-Scottish motor-cycle with frames by Victoria and sleeve-valve Barr & Stroud engines.

The  Argyll Motor Company patented the single sleeve-valve engine, subsequently selling a manufacturing licence to Barr & Stroud to produce their "own" single sleeve-valve engine.

 

 

 

 

page 176    Veteran & Vintage Motor Cycles by James Sheldon

 

 

 

page 179          70 Years of Motorcycle Production by ERWIN TRAGATSCH

 

                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MOTORCYCLES

by ERWIN TRAGATSCH

 

 

 

 

 

MOTOR-CYCLE

INDEX

1913-1924

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTOPRESS

 

 

Victoria Motorcycles were still for sale in the 1937 STONE & COX CATALOGUE