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Sunbeam Cycles

For the Wolverhampton automobile manufacturers, see Sunbeam Motor Car Company.

John Marston Limited
Sunbeam
Company typePrivate company
IndustryBicycle and motorcycle
Founded1887 (1887) in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
FounderJohn Marston
Fatedefunct
Headquarters
Wolverhampton
,
England
ProductsBicycles and motorcycles
OwnerJohn Marston
Mist Green S7 showing shaft-driven rear wheel and balloon tyres captured on highway, central England in 2007
1924 Sunbeam Model 9 on display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, Birmingham, Alabama. The single-cylinder motorcycle had a displacement of 499cc, weighed 345 pounds, and had a top speed of 75 mph.

Sunbeam Cycles made by John Marston Limited of Wolverhampton was a British brand of bicycles[1] and, from 1912 to 1956 motorcycles.

On John Marston's death after the First World War it was bought by Nobel 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 shaft-drive motorcycle with an overhead valve in-line twin engine.

  1. ^ Sunbeam Cycles. The Times, Friday, Mar 18, 1898; pg. 4; Issue 35467

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