This a listing of motorcycles of the 1930s, including those on sale, introduced, or otherwise relevant in this period.

Motorcycle

Acme motorcycle (1939–1949) The Acme motorcycle was assembled and marketed by Bennett & Wood of Wentworth Avenue, Sydney, who also built Speedwell bicycles and were also BSA (motorcycle), BSA importers for New South Wales. The engine was a Villiers Ltd, Villiers 122cc Mark 9 ...

*AJS Model E (1925-1939) *

AJS S3 V-twin The AJS S3 V-twin is a British motorcycle designed and built by the Wolverhampton, England company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd. Launched in 1931, the AJS S3 was a 496 cc transverse V-twin tourer with shaft primary drive (but chain final drive), ...

* AJS Silver Streak *

AJS V4 The AJS V4 (1935 – 1939) started out as a prototype air-cooled V4 road bike, but became a water-cooled and supercharged racing bike. The 1935 Olympia Show bike In 1935, at the Olympia Show, the Bert Collier designed air-cooled 495cc sohc AJS 5 ...

* Ariel Red Hunter *

Ariel Square Four The Square Four is a motorcycle produced by Ariel between 1931 and 1959, designed by Edward Turner, who devised the Square Four engine in 1928. At this time he was looking for work, showing drawings of his engine design to motorcycle manufactur ...

BMW R12 The BMW R12 and R17 are flat-twin engine motorcycles made by BMW Motorrad from 1935 through 1942. They were developed in 1935 based on the R7 concept of 1934. A few hundred R17s were made, ending in 1937, while the R12 continued through 1942, wit ...

* BMW R2 *

BMW WR 750 The BMW WR 750 was a supercharged racing motorcycle from BMW with two-cylinder, four-stroke flat twin engine starting production in the year 1929. History The idea to equip the flat twin engine with a supercharger came from the designer of the ...

(Introduced 1929 on sale in 1930s) *

BMW Type 255 BMW Type 255 Kompressor (also known as the 500 Kompressor, RS 255, RS255 and Type 255 RS 500) was a Supercharger, supercharged boxer twin race motorcycle from the 1930s. A BMW 255 ''Kompressor'' was ridden to victory by Georg Meier in the 1939 ...

(produced 1935–1939) * Brough Superior Austin Four *

Brough Superior Golden Dream The Brough Superior Golden Dream was designed and built by George Brough in Nottingham, England, in 1938. With its distinctive gold finish, this was to be the ultimate Brough Superior but production was stopped by the outbreak of War in 1939. ...

BSA B21 The BSA B21 was a British motorcycle made by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham. Production started in 1937 and ended with the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Development After World War I, BSA st ...

* BSA Blue Star *

BSA C11 The BSA C11 is a British motorcycle manufactured by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at their factory in Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, between 1939 and 1956. Actor Steve McQueen owned a 1951 BSA C11. Development The BSA C11 was ...

BSA Empire Star The Empire Star was a standard motorcycle made by BSA at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham. Named to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V of the United Kingdom and advertised as ''The Masterpiece of the Industry'', the Empi ...

BSA Gold Star The BSA Gold Star is a motorcycle made by BSA from 1938 to 1963. They were 350 cc and 500 cc single-cylinder four-stroke production motorcycles known for being among the fastest bikes of the 1950s. Being hand built and with many op ...

BSA M20 The BSA M20 was a British motorcycle made by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham. Although initially viewed as a near failure by the War Office in 1936, the M20 evolved into one of the longest servin ...

* BSA M33-10 * BSA W33-7 *

DKW RT 125 The RT 125 was a German two-stroke motorcycle made by DKW in Zschopau in the 1930s, IFA and MZ in the 1950s and early 1960s, and DKW in Ingolstadt in the 1950s and 1960s. "RT" stands for "Reichstyp" or "National Model". In the 1930s DKW pio ...

DKW SS 350 The DKW SS 350 was a racing motorcycle. 1935 saw the introduction of Dampf-Kraft-Wagen's first "over the counter" racer with the announcement of the SS250 at that year's Berlin Show. The model was quickly followed by a 350 cc version, the S ...

* Excelsior Manxman * Harley-Davidson RL 45 *

Matchless G3/L The Matchless G3/L is a motorcycle developed for use by the British Army during the Second World War, when Matchless manufactured 80,000 G3 and G3/L models. The G3/L became one of the most popular motorcycles used during the war, as it was the ...

* Matchless Silver Hawk *

New Imperial Model 76 The Model 76 was a New Imperial Motors Ltd motorcycle marketed under the slogan "The King of Motors" between 1936 and 1939, when the company was turned over to wartime production. Development In the mid-1920s New Imperial were producing 300 mac ...

Norton 16H The Norton 16H is a designation given to British motorcycles made between 1911 through to 1954 with various modifications and refers to a single cylinder Norton 490cc side valve engine with a bore and stroke of 79 x 100 mm. The H denotes the ...

* OEC *

PMZ-A-750 The PMZ-A-750 (Russian: ПМЗ-А-750) was a pre-World War II heavy motorcycle produced in the USSR by the PMZ (motorcycle), PMZ factory. History The PMZ-A-750 was the first heavy motorcycle manufactured in the Soviet Union. It was designed in t ...

Royal Enfield Bullet The Royal Enfield Bullet was originally an overhead-valve single-cylinder four-stroke motorcycle made by Royal Enfield in Redditch, Worcestershire, now produced by Royal Enfield (India) at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, a company originally founded by ...

Royal Enfield WD/RE The Royal Enfield WD/RE known as the "Flying Flea" was a lightweight British motorcycle developed by Royal Enfield for the British War Office (the WD came from War Department) as a means of transport that could be dropped by parachute or carr ...

Scott Model 3S The Scott Model 3S was a British motorcycle made by The Scott Motorcycle Company in 1938. Only eight were produced before the outbreak of World War II. Development The Scott designer William Cull had been experimenting with three-cylinder two ...

Scott Flying Squirrel The Scott Flying Squirrel was a motorcycle made by The Scott Motorcycle Company between 1926 and the outbreak of World War II. Development The ''Squirrel'' name was used for Scott motorcycles since 1921 but with the death of the founder Alfred ...

(1926-1939) * Sokół 1000 * Triumph 6/1 (1933-1935) Wilson, Hugo, ''The Encyclopedia of the Motorcycle'', p.181 *

Type 97 motorcycle The Type 97 motorcycle, or Rikuo, was a copy of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle produced with a sidecar from 1935 in Japan under license from Harley-Davidson by the Sankyo Company (later Rikuo Nainen Company). Some 18,000 of the machines were used ...

Vincent Comet The Vincent Comet was designed and built at the Vincent works in Great North Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. It was one of four 499 cc single models. As well as the ''sports'' Comet, Vincent produced a TT racing model, the Comet '' ...

* Vincent Rapide *

Vincent Meteor The Vincent Meteor is a British motorcycle designed and built at the Vincent works in Great North Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire UK. Developed from the Vincent Rapide by Australian engineer Phil Irving in 1935, the Meteor was powered by Vincen ...

*Wolf Cub *Wolf Minor *Wolf Utility *Wolf Vixen *Wolf Supersports *Wolf Unit

Tricycle

Harley-Davidson Servi-Car The Harley-Davidson Servi-Car was a three-wheeled utility motorcycle manufactured by Harley-Davidson from 1932 to 1973. Concept and uses The Servi-Car was designed during the Great Depression when Harley-Davidson was desperate to expand its produc ...

*Indian Dispatch-Tow 1936 Indian Dispatch-Tow Sometimes, three wheels are better than two.By Greg Williams March/April 2011
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Image:AJS_S3_riders_view.jpg, Rider's view of the AJS S3 V-twin instruments. File:Vincent Rapide Series C.jpg, Vincent Rapide File:Triumph 6-1.jpg, Triumph 6/1 File:Ariel 350 cc Red Hunter 1938.jpg, Ariel Red Hunter File:Matchless Silver Hawk.jpg, Matchless Silver Hawk

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{{reflist, 2 Lists of motorcycles Motorcycles introduced in the 1930s

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