Sheffields Motorcycle Industry
At a recent visit to The National Motorcycle Museum, a great way to loose a day in a fog of nostalgia bye the way. My eye was taken by a handsome red machine, it was a "Dunelt Vulture". A motorcycle with Sheffield connections, the imformation panel mentioned other Sheffield makes. Here's what ive managed to cobble together so far, its a bit sparse in places, but hopefully we can gather more imformation over time. I will try and add pictures too eventually.
Dunelt:
An off sho
In 1993 I was on holiday in the Isle of Man, and visited Murray’s Motorcycle Museum. One of the exhibits caught my attention – it was a framed AutoCycle Union Certificate of Performance for the Wilkin motorcycle which I noted had been made in Sheffield at Onslow Road, a couple of roads away from where I grew up. I took a poor photograph of the certificate. In 2005 Peter Murray announced that the museum was closing and asked for people to register their interest in buying the exhibits. I asked
