Sun (motorcycle)

The Sun Cycle & Fittings Co. Ltd. was an English manufacturer of motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles.^[1] The company was based in Aston, Birmingham.

The company was founded as James Parkes & Son, a brass foundry producing lamp fittings and various other products. In 1885 the company started to manufacture frames and fittings for the bicycle trade.

In 1897, the company became The Sun Cycle & Fittings Company Limited, and around the same time began making its own bicycles. The first Sun motorcycle was produced in 1911.

The company was taken over by Tube Investments in 1958, and in 1961 the factory was closed and production moved to the Raleigh factory at Nottingham. The 'Sun' name was for some time used to badge Raleigh cycles which had been returned to the factory for rectification work.

References

↑ "the Online Museum for the Sun Cycle & Fittings Co.". Retrieved 2011-06-05.

Company history

External links

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TI Group

Subsidiaries	Accles & Pollock Alfred Herbert Ltd Brooks England Carlton Cycles Dowty Group Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Norman Cycles Phillips Cycles Raleigh Bicycle Company Reynolds Cycle Technology Rudge-Whitworth Russell Hobbs Sturmey-Archer Sun Cycles Swallow Sidecar Company

People	Ivan Stedeford

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