Villiers Singles and Twins

By: Roy Bacon .

The subject of this book is perhaps the most ambitious of any so far in the Osprey Collector's Library. Its scope is to cover the postwar Villiers-powered motorcycle but it is in fact wider than that; it includes all the British 'look alikes' as well.

This means the relevant Excelsior, AMC, Anzani, JAP and Alpha engined motorcycles are within. In fact, it offers some 38 manufacturers of motorcycles, six of engines which produced two dozen or more separate engine types.

The appeal of this book, therefore, is manifold. In one volume it will satisfy a multitude of enthusiasts who cannot read about their interest anywhere else. For the very first time many of those most familiar motorcycle names will come alive: the vastly popular Francis-Barnett, James and Norman; the sought after Greeves, Cotton, DEW and Sun; the obscure Dot, OAK, Panther and Tandon; even the forgotten Aberdale, HJH and Scorpion.

Here is a mainstream motorcycle history for those who thought that they had been forever overlooked. For those who thought that the humble 'lightweight two-stroke' had been dismissed, destined for 'grey porridgedom', without a fight. Here is motorcycle nostalgia - accurate, detailed, heavily illustrated which is needed now more than ever before.

Remember some of those early advertisements ... Jimmy James says 'she's simply wizard'. So is this book.

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