The Belt-driven Singer.
Singer and Co., who were amongst the first British firms to devote attention to the motor cycle, makes a radical departure from their previous designs in gear-driven machines, and show for the first time a bicycle of the belt-driven type. The engine, which is of 3 h.p. of their well-known type, and fitted with the magneto ignition, is vertically placed forward of the crank bracket in the strutted down-tube, and is supported as; to its forward end by means of a cradle and tube clipped to the bottom end of the down-tube, just before this breaks away into a two-armed strut to accommodate the motor...
Continued: Singer 1903-1904 Models
1904 Quadrants.
The principal feature which calls for attention in the new model Quadrant motor bicycle is the employment of a spring front fork. The sketch given herewith is almost self-explanatory and descriptive in itself, but a few words upon it may perhaps help the less-versed readers of The Motor Cycle to understand its construction. The front forks take an oval section tubular form for their greater length. From the termination of the tube a forging is projected some six inches below the centre of the hub spindle...
Continued: Quadrant 1903-1904 Models
The Motor Cycle November 25th, 1903. p847
Crystal Palace Show 1903 Index
