William Brough, who founded
the firm in 1911, was a mining engineer who
made sturdy motorcycles from raw materials
and favoured flat twins. When his son George
came into the business he soon became impatient
with his father's old-fashioned designs and
methods and broke away in 1921 to build high-quality
motorcycles from bought-in parts using V-twin
engines.
The most famous of these
was the SS100 (T W Lawrence was riding one
of these when he was killed in 1935). The
company failed to survive the Second World
War. Brough
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