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    name of the Matchless Motor Cycles company was changed to "Amalgamated Motor Cycles Ltd" in 1937 and "Associated Motor Cycles (AMC)" in 1938. AMC was...
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    Industries, Nobel became ICI. Associated Motor Cycles bought it in 1937; then, BSA bought Sunbeam in 1943. Sunbeam Cycles is most famous for its S7 balloon-tyred...
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    identical to the Matchless G80 and both were produced in the same Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) London factory from 1945 to 1966. These bikes represent the...
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    The Matchless G12 is a British motorcycle made by Associated Motor Cycles at the former Matchless factory in Plumstead, London. Developed in 1958 specifically...
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    000 of the military Model 16 H and Big 4 sidevalve motorcycles. Associated Motor Cycles bought the company in 1953. It was reformed as Norton-Villiers...
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    AJS 500 cc Porcupine was a British racing motorcycle built by Associated Motor Cycles (AMC), which débuted in 1945 with a horizontal-engine designated...
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    manufacturers from 1884 to 1966. The company was taken over by Associated Motor Cycles in 1951 and combined with Francis-Barnett in 1957. In 1966 the...
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    Indian Motorcycle (category Motor vehicle assembly plants in Minnesota)
    "2016 Indian Chief Dark Horse Unveiled: Blackened Boldness". Ultimate MotorCycling. February 14, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2016. Times, Los Angeles (May...
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    A ship's badge was presented to the borough in September 1942. Associated Motor Cycles in southeast London, which made Matchless motorcycles, unofficially...
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    a British 350 cc racing motorcycle built from 1948 to 1963 by Associated Motor Cycles. It was also commonly known as the ‘Boy Racer’, and won victories...
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    course from 1966 to 1973. His father was Jack Williams who ran the Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) race department. Williams trained in mechanical engineering...
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  • This is a partial list of motorcycle models produced by the Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) from its foundation in 1938 to incorporations as Norton-Villiers-Triumph...
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    The AJS Model 31 was a British motorcycle made by Associated Motor Cycles at the former Matchless works in Plumstead, London. Developed in 1958 specifically...
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  • Production ceased shortly before the collapse of the parent group Associated Motor Cycles in 1966. Launched in 1960 at the Earls Court Motorcycle Show the...
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    Francis–Barnett (category Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Coventry)
    was based in Lower Ford Street, Coventry, until 1962. In 1947, Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) took over Francis-Barnett. In 1957, AMC merged Francis-Barnett...
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    Birmingham Small Arms Company (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England)
    Sunbeam motorcycles and bicycle business from Associated Motor Cycles Ltd in 1943 and then Ariel Motors Ltd in 1944. During the course of the conflict...
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    1968 to 1972. Around 60,000 Commandos were made in total. Associated Motor Cycles (AMC), Norton's parent company, had become bankrupt in 1966 and had been...
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  • up a motley collection of failing British motorcycle companies, Associated Motor Cycles, Norton, AJS, James, Francis-Barnett, Matchless, and engine manufacturers...
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    45, it was eventually shortened to P11 and built at the former Associated Motor Cycles factory in Woolwich, London, largely from spare parts. The first...
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  • Manganese Bronze Holdings Ltd. This company subsequently bought Associated Motor Cycles Ltd, owners of the Norton, AJS and Matchless motorcycle brands...
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    Matchless G80 is a single cylinder 500 cc British motorcycle built by Associated Motorcycles (AMC) between 1946 and 1966. During the 1950s and 1960s, the...
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  • Chairman of Associated Motor Cycles for several years. In March 1966, he filed for divorce from his third wife. In the meantime, Associated Motor Cycles suffered...
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  • Norton P10 Manufacturer Norton Motorcycle Company Parent company Associated Motor Cycles Assembly Plumstead, London Successor Norton Z26 Class Prototype...
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  • quickly. To get themselves off the hook from Ducati, they turned to Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) in the UK, and used the leverage of the vast USA market they...
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  • Roarer'. In 1942 he moved to London and worked with Joe Craig at Associated Motor Cycles Ltd at Plumstead. In July 1943 Philip Vincent wrote to him and...
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    different specification, and larger ports in the cylinders or heads. Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) was formed in 1938, as a parent company for Matchless and...
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  • (BIC). Associated Motor Cycles — was the parent company of motorcycle companies including: Matchless, A. J. Stevens & Co. Francis-Barnett, James Cycle Co...
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  • Engineers) Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union Associated Motor Cycles, briefly known as "Amalgamated Motor Cycles Ltd" MGM-British Studios, previously "Amalgamated...
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  • Norton Villiers Triumph (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    merged with financially troubled Norton Villiers (the remains of Associated Motor Cycles, which had gone bust in 1966), a subsidiary of British engineering...
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  • awarded the Order of the British Empire. After the war, he joined Associated Motor Cycles as a sales director. AJS had developed a new race bike known as...
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