Sales Catalogues

€œFrom the earliest days of motorcycling to the present time is only some twenty years or so, yet in these two decades there has been an astonishing development; improvements of which the early experimenter never dreamt are now part and parcel of every good mount. Performances beyond their imagination are now ordinary events€. €¦. An […]

Having produced motorcycles since 1910 Diamond would have to be one of the smaller and more obscure makes seen around at rallies today. They were just one of the many motorcycle manufacturers trying to eke out a living in the 1920s so to compete with the bigger companies they also had on offer kitset type

Douglas motorcycles have always been unique. When other manufacturers chose single cylinder engines for their smaller capacity machines and V twin engines to power their larger machines Douglas chose the horizontally opposed twin cylinder for all of their motorcycles. This meant some of the smoothest rides of the vintage era, and having owned a 1924

Barnstormers used pages from this catalogue for one of the banners and thought that it was time to publish the whole thing. This edition covers all the single cylinder models for 1937 including the model produced exclusively for export, the 3SE. It is quoted as €œhas been designed with the idea of providing a robust

Further to the 1937 Riders Instruction Book is the Sales Catalogue that accompanied it. For the complete tale on this and the Riders Instruction Book click here. It is a neat human interest piece, the sort of stories that are fast disappearing as our elderly riders pass away. Click on the cover below to see