British Bike Builders

<p>From Edwardian back-street workshops to the scorched deserts of North Africa from board-track glory to Hollywood cool three British names rewrote the rules of motor-cycling-and then paid the price of empire. British Bike Builders is the first fully fact-driven narrative to braid Triumph BSA and Norton into a single sweeping story. Drawing on factory ledgers patent filings race-day lap charts and union minutes it shows how inspired metallurgy ruthless competition and bold export gambits carried British twins and singles to every corner of the globe.</p><p></p><p>Yet the same forces that forged a legend also sowed collapse. Wartime overreach badge-engineering bloat Japanese precision and industrial unrest pushed assembly lines into silence-only for the marques to roar back through custom culture vintage grids and modern revivals. Each chapter stands alone as a miniature history; together they chart a century-long rise fall and renaissance whose echoes still power today's retro classics and tomorrow's electric prototypes.</p>