New Lightweight Motor-Cycle Popular With Women
A new type lightweight motorcycle, which no one in Britain is allowed to buy, is earning many thousands of pounds in dollars and hard foreign currencies. Weighing less than 1801 b., it has proved very popular with women motor-cyclists overseas and is widely used by nurses and settlers’ wives in the outposts of the Empire. Kaye Don, famous pre-war motorracing wizard of Brooklands, designed the machine during the war years wfien' his factory was making munitions and the first model was made in 1946. Called the “Ambassador” because it was designed -to promote goodwill for British products overseas, where hardly any motor cycles but American have ever been seen, the machine has a two horse-power engine of a simple two-stroke design. It will do more than 50 m.p.h. on the rough roads of the hinterland in Australia and South Africa and 110 miles to the gallon. Made of special weatherproof alloy metals, the machine functions equally well in the steamy jungles of Malaya or the city sub-zero tracks of Arctic Canada.
Being extremely light, with fing-er-tip steering and controls, it will become very popular with women.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 46, 26 January 1949, Page 5
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192New Lightweight Motor-Cycle Popular With Women Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 46, 26 January 1949, Page 5
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