Brough Superior speedo and engine detail
Ken McIntosh on the Brough Superior.
sporting disciplines. No doubt helped by his eye
for publicity, several legends developed around
his immaculate motorcycles. George understood
the value of exalted a ssociation and when a couple
of Rolls Royce representatives visited the Brough
factory, they saw a man wearing white gloves
1992 Hesketh. Little change from 1982
working on one of the machines. Subsequently,
with the approval of Rolls Royce, Brough was
able to use in his advertising the phrase ‘the Rolls
Royce of motorcycles.’ Brough made sure that
new customers were given a signed certificate,
guaranteeing them that the machine they had
bought had exceed a hundred miles per hour over
a quarter mile. Perhaps the most enduring story
associated with the marque is that T.E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia) owned seven Broughs, six of
them SS100s, and he had an eighth on order when
he died on a Brough Superior in a freak accident.
When the Hesketh V-twin appeared in
1982, Lord Hesketh made it known that
he wanted his invention to be known as
a “gentleman’s” motorcycle, like a two-
wheeled Aston Martin. One thing’s for certain,
British V-twins certainly had class.
Hesketh engine detail
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