The following is a list of motorcycle

Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...

 manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorbikes are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only

Motorcycle racing

Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.-Motorcycle racing:...

 or off-road-only motorcycles. The list of current manufacturers does not include badge engineered

Badge engineering

Badge engineering is an ironic term that describes the rebadging of one product as another...

 bikes or motorcycle customisers

Custom motorcycle

A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle that is highly stylized or which treats aspects such as frame geometry, engine design, or paintwork in an unusual way compared to standard manufacturing. Custom motorcycles are unique or individually produced in a very limited quantity, as opposed to "stock"...

, but the list of defunct manufactures may include some of these if they are well remembered for their historical significance.

Manufacturers currently in production

List of companies currently producing and selling motorcycles available to the public, including both street and race/off-road motorcycles. Does not include badge engineered

Badge engineering

Badge engineering is an ironic term that describes the rebadging of one product as another...

 bikes sold under a different name than their producer, nor motorcycle customisers

Custom motorcycle

A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle that is highly stylized or which treats aspects such as frame geometry, engine design, or paintwork in an unusual way compared to standard manufacturing. Custom motorcycles are unique or individually produced in a very limited quantity, as opposed to "stock"...

.

China

• Hi Bird
  Hi Bird
  Hi Bird is a brand of motorcycles, scooters and ATVs manufactured by Chongqing Hi-Bird Motorcycle Industry Co., Ltd. such as the Hi-Bird QH125-10 Motorcycle....
  
  
• Jincheng Suzuki
  Jincheng Suzuki
  Jincheng Suzuki is a joint Sino-Japanese producer of motorcycles and scooters founded in 1994 and headquartered in Nanjing. It is a joint venture between Suzuki and Nanjing Jincheng Machinery. The company claims output of 3,000 units per month, making it the first-place exporter and...
  
  
• Jincheng Group
  Jincheng Group
  The Jincheng Group was established in 1949 and affiliated with China Aviation Industry Corporation I , Jincheng Corporation is a large enterprise group engaged in five industries, ie., electromechanic and hydraulic industry, light power industry, vehicle industry, international trade industry and...
  
  
• Lifan
• Taizhou Shake Ring Motorcycle
  Shake Ring Motorcycle
  Taizhou Shake Ring motor components & Parts Co.,LTD was founded in September 1996 and is located in Yuhuan's Guanlin Road industry zone . The company occupies 30,000 square meters and employs more than 200 people....
  
  ,
• Zongshen
  Zongshen
  Zongshen is a Chinese company producing motorcycles, quad bikes, generators and engines, based in Chongqing, China. It claims to have a yearly output of over 1,000,000 motorcycles....
  
  

Czech Republic

• CZ
  Ceská Zbrojovka Strakonice
  Česká zbrojovka is a Czech firearms manufacturer also known for making ČZ motorcycles. ČZ was established as a branch of the Škoda Works Armament in Strakonice, Czechoslovakia in September 1919.-History:...
  
  
• Jawa
  Jawa Motors
  Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. The name was created after its founder, Frantisek Janecek, bought the motorcycle division of Wanderer in 1929 , by concatenating the first letters of Janeček and Wanderer...
  
  
• Blata
  Blata (company)
  Blata, is a Czech company, based in Blansko, that produces high performance, mini moto bikes.These bikes are designed and built for use on a closed, paved circuit....
  
  

France

• Gima
  Gima (motorcycles)
  GIMA is a French motorcycle manufacturer that built lightweight bikes from 1947 until 1956, and resumed in 2005 with the production of modern retro reincarnation of the original 1950s bikes, but compliant with modern standards.-External links:* homepage...
  
  
• Peugeot
  Peugeot Motorcycles
  Peugeot Motorcycles is a subsidiary of the French automaker Peugeot that builds small motorcycles primarily for the French domestic market.-History:...
  
  
• Scorpa
  Scorpa
  Scorpa is a manufacturer of trials motorcycles based near Alès, France. It was founded in 1993 by Marc Teissier and Joël Domergue. The first model produced by the company was the WORKS 294 in 1994, powered by a single-cylinder, two-stroke Rotax engine...
  
  
• Sherco
• Solex
  Solex
  Solex was a French manufacturer of carburetors and the powered bicycle VéloSoleX.The Solex company was founded by Marcel Mennesson and Maurice Goudard to manufacture vehicle radiators...
  
  

Germany

• BMW
  BMW motorcycles
  BMW's motorcycle history began in 1921 when the company commenced manufacturing engines for other companies. Motorcycle manufacturing now operates under the BMW Motorrad brand...
  
  
• Horex
  Horex
  Horex is a German motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1920 by the Rex glassware company, which conflated Homburg and Rex to create the brand name. The headquarter was in Bad Homburg....
  
  
• MZ
• Sachs

India

• Bajaj Auto
  Bajaj Auto
  Bajaj Auto is a major Indian vehicle manufacturer started by Jamnalal Bajaj from Rajasthan in the 1930s. It is based in Pune, Maharashtra, with plants in Chakan , Waluj and Pantnagar in Uttaranchal. The oldest plant at Akurdi now houses the R&D centre Ahead...
  
  
• Hero MotoCorp (formerly Hero Honda)
• Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India
  HMSI
  Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, Private Limited is the wholly owned Indian subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Limited, Japan. Founded in 1999, it was the fourth Honda automotive venture in India, after Hero Honda, Kinetic Honda Motor Ltd and Honda Siel Cars India.The entry of Honda into the...
  
  
• LML
• Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
  Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
  Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is the flagship company of the Mahindra Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. The company was set up in 1945 in Ludhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed by brothers K.C. Mahindra and J.C. Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed...
  
  
• Royal Enfield Motors
• Suzuki Motorcycle India
  Suzuki
  is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...
  
  
• TVS Motor
• India Yamaha Motor
  India Yamaha Motor
  India Yamaha Motor is an Indian subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Company, formed in 2008 as a joint venture with Mitsui...
  
  

Italy

• Aprilia
  Aprilia
  Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the seven marques owned by Piaggio, the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.Aprilia started as a scooter manufacturer, but has more recently come to be known for its race-winning sportbikes...
  
  
• Benelli
  Benelli (motorcycles)
  Benelli is an Italian Motorcycle manufacturer owned by Chinese company Qianjiang Group. It once manufactured shotguns, although this part of the business is now a separate company.-Early history:...
  
  
• Beta Motor
  Beta (motorcycle manufacturer)
  Beta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer, specialising in off-road motorcycles. Beta are best known for their popular trials bikes. In 2005, they launched a range of enduro motorcycles using KTM engines. In the 2010 they will launch the new RR series, with a new engine made in-house...
  
  
• Bimota
  Bimota
  Bimota is a small, Italian manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. The company name is a portmanteau derived from the first two letters of each of the three founders' surnames, i.e...
  
  
• Borile
  Borile
  Borile makes retro-modern bicycles and motorcycles in Venice, Italy, such as the B500CR, "a modern day interpretation of how a BSA Gold Star would look if it were produced today." Borile's technically advanced yet aesthetically vintage motorcycles are at the center of a marked retro wave during...
  
  
• Cagiva
  Cagiva
  Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1950 by Giovanni Castiglioni in Varese, originally producing small metal components. It went into the motorcycle industry in 1978. The name is a portmanteau derived from the founder and the founding location, i.e. CAstiglioni GIovanni...
  
  
• Ducati
• Fantic Motor
  Fantic Motor
  Fantic Motor is an Italian manufacturer of motorcycles. The company began in 1968, manufacturing and exporting enduro motorcycles, mini-bikes and go-karts...
  
  
• Ghezzi & Brian
  Ghezzi & Brian
  Ghezzi & Brian is an Italian motorcycle engineering firm and manufacturer based in Missaglia.-History:Ghezzi & Brian was founded in 1995 to develop racing motorcycles using twin-cylinder engines....
  
  

• Gilera
  Gilera
  Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera. In 1969 the company was purchased by Piaggio, which now holds six marques and is the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.-History:...
  
  
• Husqvarna
  Husqvarna Motorcycles
  Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...
  
   (owned by BMW
  BMW
  Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
  
   but all production remains in Italy)
• Malaguti
  Malaguti
  Malaguti is a family-owned Italian scooter and motorcycle company based in San Lazzaro di Savena, founded by Antonino Malaguti in 1930.-History:...
  
  
• Motobi
  Motobi
  Motobi was an Italian motorcycle manufacturer in production between 1950 and 1977. The brand was revived by Austrian company Michael Leeb Trading GmbH in partnership with Demharter GmbH in 2010....
  
  
• Moto Guzzi
  Moto Guzzi
  Moto Guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It is one of seven brands owned by Piaggio.Established in 1921 in Mandello del Lario, Italy, the company is noted for its central historic role in Italy's motorcycling manufacture, its prominence worldwide in motorcycle racing, and a series of...
  
  
• Moto Morini
  Moto Morini
  Moto Morini is an Italian maker of motorcycles. It was founded by Alfonso Morini in Bologna, in 1937.Earlier, Morini had also manufactured motorcycles together with Mario Mazzetti under the name MM...
  
  
• MV Agusta
  MV Agusta
  MV Agusta is a motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1945 near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy. The company began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company formed by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923. The Count died in 1927, leaving the company in the hands of his wife and sons, Domenico, Vincenzo,...
  
  
• Terra Modena
  Terra Modena
  Terra Modena is an Italian supermoto/dual-sport motorcycle manufacturer that is responsible for creating the "most exotic and expensive supermoto ever built – the Terra Modena 198." The design and production of the bikes are outsourced to other firms, such as engine design done by Peiro Ferrai's...
  
  
• Vyrus

Japan

• Honda
  Honda
  is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...
  
  
• Kawasaki
• Suzuki
  Suzuki
  is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...
  
  
• Yamaha

Monaco

• Voxan
  Voxan
  Voxan was a French motorcycle manufacturer established in Issoire, France, in 1995.Originally initiated by Jacques Gardette, the project involved different partners, including Alain Chevallier, who designed the chassis part, and société Sodemo, established in Magny-Cours, France, who designed the...
  
   (bought by a Monegasque
  Monaco
  Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
  
   millionaire Gildo Pallanca Pastor in 2001)

Russia

• IZH
  Izh
  Izh may refer to one of the following.*Izh River , Udmurt Republic, Russia*Izh motorcycles from IzhMoto*izh, ISO 639-3 code for the Ingrian language...
  
  
• ZiD
  Degtyarev plant
  The Degtyarev plant is one of the most important weapon-producing enterprises of Russia...
  
   as the Voskhod
  Voskhod motorcycle
  Voskhod is the name of several types of motorcycles produced at the Degtyarev plant in the Russian town of Kovrov since 1965.All Voskhod motorcycles had a displacement of 175 cm³....
  
  
• IMZ-Ural
  IMZ-Ural
  IMZ-Ural is a Russian maker of heavy sidecar motorcycles. Recently the company has developed a solo motorcycle with no sidecar.In 1940, the Soviet Union acquired the design and production techniques for BMW R 71 motorcycles and sidecars. The first M-72 model was finished in 1941...
  
  

United Kingdom

• AJS
  AJS
  AJS was the name used for cars and motorcycles made by the Wolverhampton, England, company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records, and after the firm was sold the name continued to be used by Matchless, Associated Motorcycles and Norton-Villiers on...
  
  
• CCM
  Clews Competition Motorcycles
  Clews Competition Motorcycles or CCM for short, is a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Bolton, England.-History:CCM was born out of the collapse of BSA's Competition Department in 1971....
  
  
• Matchless
  Matchless
  Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966. A wide range of models was produced under the Matchless name, ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc four-stroke twins...
  
  
• Megelli Motorcycles
  Megelli Motorcycles
  Megelli Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, which made its debut at the Milan EICMA exhibition in November 2007. Megelli motorcycles was founded by the Managing Director of SLD UK Ltd, Barry Hall, who previously specialised in off road Aeon all-terrain vehicles, Mini bikes and Pit bikes...
  
  
• Norton
• Rickman
  Rickman Motorcycles
  Rickman Motorcycles was established by Derek and Don Rickman and manufactured motorcycles from 1960 through to 1975.Initially the frame designs were for scrambles, and then for road racing. Later, in 1966, road bikes were produced as well. The first street legal bike used a Triumph Bonneville engine...
  
  
• Triumph
  Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
  Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest surviving British motorcycle manufacturer, which was established in 1984 by John Bloor after the original manufacturer Triumph Engineering went into receivership...
  
  

United States

Manufacturers no longer in production

List of companies that formerly produced and sold motorcycles available to the public, including both street and race/off-road motorcycles. Also includes some former motorcycle producers of noted historical significance but who would today be classified as badge engineered

Badge engineering

Badge engineering is an ironic term that describes the rebadging of one product as another...

 or customisers. Includes both companies that are defunct, and those that still exist but no longer make motorcycles, and some that were acquired by other companies.

Argentina

• 808
  808
  Year 808 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* King Eardwulf is driven out of North-East England and succeeded by Alfwold II, but Eardwulf is restored following Alfwold’s death.- Births :* Gottschalk, German theologian* Walafrid Strabo, Swabian monk and...
  
  
• 505 - Moto
• AETA Motoneta
• AMALFI
  Amalfi
  Amalfi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, c. 35 km southeast of Naples. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto , surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery...
  
  
• AMORETO
• ANCON
  Ancon
  Ancon Building Products is a company that designs and manufactures Stainless steel products for the construction industry founded and still based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The main products being "Wall Tie", and brickwork support systems. Ancon is part of Tyco International...
  
  
• ARAYCO
• BGH FERRARI
• BROADWAY
  Broadway
  Broadway may refer to:* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions produced in one of forty professional theatres located on or near Broadway in New York- Streets :In North America:* Broadway , Manhattan and The Bronx...
  
  
• CARINA
  Carina
  Carina may refer to:* Carina, a given name in Portugal and some other countries. It is a pet form of Cara, which can mean either "beloved" in Italian or "friend" in the Irish language-Locations:Carina is the name of the towns or villages:...
  
  
• BURMOR
• CARU - Motoneta
• CAVINI
• CIPACAR
• CLERI
• CRAWDET
• DEC 100
• DEVAL MOTO
• DERRI
• DUNKY
• EOLO MOTO
• FA MOTO
• FBA MOTO

• FELINA
  Felina
  Felina may refer to:* Felinae: scientific classification for small cats* Lontra felina: scientific name of the marine otter* La Felina: aka Gail Kim, professional wrestler* Feleena: heroine of Marty Robbins' song "El Paso"...
  
  
• FLAMINIA
• FRANKE BISSO
• GAUDINO MOTO
• GEBHARDT
  Gebhardt
  Gebhardt is a surname, and may refer to:* Dixie Cornell Gebhardt* Eric "Red Mouth" Gebhardt* Eduard von Gebhardt* Evelyne Gebhardt* Fritz Gebhardt* George Gebhardt* Greg Gebhardt* Gunther Gebhardt* Karl Gebhardt* Marco Gebhardt* Mike Gebhardt...
  
  
• GELIS MOTO
• HALCÓN
• JMD MOTO
• JUNIOR'S
  Junior's
  Junior's is a restaurant at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn . The restaurant also has an outlet inside Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, one in the Times Square area, and one in the hotel lobby of MGM Grand at Foxwoods in...
  
  
• LADY
  Lady
  The word lady is a polite term for a woman, specifically the female equivalent to, or spouse of, a lord or gentleman, and in many contexts a term for any adult woman...
  
  
• LH (Lujan Hnos)
• MGN MOTO
• ML - MOTOR LINE
• MOTO LANDIA
• RICUA
• MOTO L.B.D.
• MULITA - Motofurgón
• SCIARINI
• SUPER 5 (125/3)
• TASSI (125/3)
• TT MOTO
• VAGIRO TRICARGA
• ZEUS MOTO

Australia

• Bennett & Barkell
  Bennett & Barkell Motorcycles
  Bennett & Barkell or B & B motorcycles were manufactured in Australia from about 1910 to at least 1917 by Bennett & Barkell Ltd. of 234 Pitt Street and later 124-132 Castlereagh Street, Sydney....
  
   — (~1910-~1917)
• Beauchamp — (1901-~1910)
• Carbine — (1901–1922)
• Champion — (~1901-~1922)
• Elliot — (~1912-1935)
• E.W.B. — (1910–1918)
• G.C.S — (1913–1926)
• Hercules — (1912-~1927)
• Invincible-JAP — (1922–1928)
• Lewis — (1902–1925)
• Magnet — (1902–1913)
• Malvern Star — (~1912-1918)
• Pasco — (1919–1925)
• Peerless — (<1910-1923)
• Regnis — (1912–1920)
• Torpedo — (~1912-~1939)
• Waratah — (~1910-~1950)

Austria

• Austro-ILO — (1923–1967)
• Delta-Gnom
  Delta-Gnom
  Delta-Gnom was an Austrian manufacturer founded in 1923 producing J.A.P.-engined motorcycles until the early 1930s. Production resumed after World War II using Rotax engines, until 1955....
  
   — (1923–1963)
• Laurin & Klement
  Laurin & Klement
  Laurin & Klement was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile manufacturer in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, at the time also known in German as Jungbunzlau, and a part of Austria-Hungary ....
  
   — (1899–1908)
• Puch
  Puch
  Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.-Pre 1919:...
  
   — (1903–1987)

Belgium

• FN
  FN (motorcycle)
  FN was a Belgian company established in 1899 to make arms and ammunition, and from 1901 to 1967 was also a motorcycle manufacturer...
  
   —
• Gillet Herstal
  Gillet Herstal
  Gillet Herstal was a Belgian manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles based in Herstal.-Company history:Started in 1919 as with the production of motorcycles, Gillet Herstal ended its production in 1958.-Automotive:...
  
   —
• Minerva (1900–1914)
• Mondiale — (1923–1934)
• Saroléa
  Saroléa
  Saroléa was the first Belgian producer of motorcycles, and one of the first producers of motorcycles in the world. This Belgian factory was established in 1850 as a weapons factory by Joseph Saroléa. In 1892 bicycles began to be built as well....
  
   — (1901–1960)

Brazil

• Amazonas — (1978–1986)
• Kahena — (1992-
• Brumana Pugliese
  Brumana Pugliese
  Brumana Pugliese S.A. was a Brazilian motorcycle and scooter manufacturer that ceased trading in 1982. Its predecessor companies were Lambretta do Brasil and Pasco Lambretta.-Lambretta do Brasil:...
  
   — (1970–1982)

Czech Republic

• Čechie (Böhmerland) —
• CZ
  Ceská Zbrojovka Strakonice
  Česká zbrojovka is a Czech firearms manufacturer also known for making ČZ motorcycles. ČZ was established as a branch of the Škoda Works Armament in Strakonice, Czechoslovakia in September 1919.-History:...
  
  —
• ESO
  ESO (motorcycles)
  Eso was a Czech motorcycle factory producing only racing machines from 1949 until 1964, when it joined Jawa. ESO was founded by a motorcycle racing driver, and made bikes in 250, 350, and 500 cc, primarily for speedway, moto-cross and ice racing. Engines were sourced from J.A.P. during the first...
  
   —
• Jawa CZ
  Jawa Motors
  Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. The name was created after its founder, Frantisek Janecek, bought the motorcycle division of Wanderer in 1929 , by concatenating the first letters of Janeček and Wanderer...
  
   —
• Praga Hostivař
  Praga Hostivar
  Praga is a manufacturing company based in Prague. In 2006, it was purchased by International Truck Alliance.- History :Praga was founded in 1907 to build motor cars. as a venture between Frantisek Ringhoffer and the First Czech-Moravian Machine Factory. Ringhoffer only stayed for one year and in...
  
   —
• Premier — (1913–1933)

France

• Alcyon
  Alcyon
  The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957.- Origins :Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented by motorcycle production and in 1906, the first cars...
  
   — (1904–1957)
• Automoto
  Automoto
  Automoto was a French motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1902, which joined with the Peugot group in 1930 and was fully absorbed by 1962. Prior to World War II Automoto sourced engines from Chaise, Zurcher, J.A.P., and Villers. AMC engines were also used after 1945....
  
   —
• Barigo
• BFG
• Dresch
  Dresch
  Dresch was a motorcycle manufacturer in Étampes, France founded by Henri Dresch in 1923. The company's products ranged from 98cc single-cylinder machines to a 750cc four-cylinder model. Dresch used proprietary engines from various suppliers including Aubier Dunne, Chaise, JAP, MAG, Stainless and...
  
   — (1923–1939)
• Elf
  Elf
  An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...
  
  
• Excelsior (Bourgoin) — (1910–1912)
• Gitane —
• Gnome et Rhône
  Gnome et Rhône
  Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on...
  
   — (1919–1959)
• Koehler-Escoffier
• Magnat-Debon
• MF
• MGC — (1927–1932)
• Midual
  Midual
  Midual was a proposed motorcycle that debuted in October 1999 at the World Show of Two-Wheeled Vehicles in Paris. It was created by the brothers Olivier and François Midy and was to be built in Angers, France. The motorcycle was a roadster featuring a flat-twin liquid-cooled engine of 875cc mounted...
  
  
• Monet-Goyon
  Monet-Goyon
  Monet-Goyon was a French motorcycle manufacturer, founded in 1917 by the engineer Joseph Monet and his financial backer Adrien Goyon in Mâcon, France.-Further reading:...
  
  
• Motobécane
  Motobécane
  Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. "Motobécane" is a compound of "moto", slang for motorcycle; "bécane" is slang for "bike."...
  
   —
• Nougier
  Nougier
  Nougier was a brand of French hand built road racing motorcycles made by Jean Nougier from 1937 to 1972.Entirely hand-built, the engines were dual overhead camshaft unit with hairpin valve springs, which remained popular on racing engines since due to their ease of replacement...
  
   —
• Radior
  Radior
  The Radior was a French automobile manufactured from 1920 until 1922. A few 1592 cc Ballot-engined cars were assembled by one M. Chapolard, a Rochet-Schneider agent in Bourg-en-Bresse, and sold under this name....
  
   —
• Ratier
  Ratier
  Ratier-Figeac ia an aircraft components manufacturer in Montrouge, France.From 1926 until 1930 it also built a car with a 746 cc overhead camshaft engine....
  
   — (1959–1962)
• Scorpa
  Scorpa
  Scorpa is a manufacturer of trials motorcycles based near Alès, France. It was founded in 1993 by Marc Teissier and Joël Domergue. The first model produced by the company was the WORKS 294 in 1994, powered by a single-cylinder, two-stroke Rotax engine...
  
   — (1993–2009)
• Terrot
  Terrot
  Terrot was a motorcycle manufacturer in Dijon, France.Charles Terrot and Wilhelm Stücklen had founded a machinery factory in Cannstatt, Germany in 1862, and Terrot added a branch factory in Dijon in 1887, and in 1890 the Dijon factory added bicycles to its products.In 1902 the Dijon factory made...
  
   —
• Voxan
• Werner — (1901-

Germany

• Ardie
  Ardie
  Ardie was a company in Nürnberg, Germany that manufactured motorcycles from 1919 until 1958. The company's name derives from that of its founder, Arno Dietrich....
  
   — (1919–1957)
• DKW
  DKW
  DKW is a historic German car and motorcycle marque. The name derives from Dampf-Kraft-Wagen .In 1916, the Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the DKW...
  
   — (1919-
• D-Rad
  D-Rad
  D-Rad was a motorcycle factory in Spandau, Germany. The factory was founded as Star, but in 1923 Deutsche Industrie-Werke took it over and changed the name to D-Rad. NSU merged with Deutsche Industrie-Werke in 1932 and terminated D-Rad production in 1933.- External links :*...
  
   — (1923–1933)
• Excelsior (Brandenburg) — (1901-1906 / 1927-1939)
• Excelsior (München) — (1923–1924)
• Express
  Express Werke AG
  Express Werke AG was a company in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany that manufactured bicycles and motorcycles. In the 1930s Express built mopeds and lightweight motorcycles with 75cc and 98cc Sachs engines. From 1949 the company resumed production using Sachs and ILO engines up to 248cc. In 1958...
  
   — (1933–1958)
• Flottweg — (1921-
• Hecker (motorcycle)
  Hecker (motorcycle)
  Hecker was a company in Nürnberg, Germany that manufactured motorcycles from 1922 until 1956.Production began with engines supplied by Scharrer & Groß. In 1925 S & G started making their own motorcycles so Hecker switched to engines from 198cc to 548cc bought from JAP in London, England...
  
   — (1922–1957)
• Hercules
  Hercules (motorcycle)
  Hercules was a brand of motorcycle manufactured in Germany until 1992.The Hercules Company was founded in 1886 and began producing motorcycles in 1904. It was merged with Zweirad Union after being purchased by ZF Sachs in 1963....
  
   — (1904–1966)
• Horex
  Horex
  Horex is a German motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1920 by the Rex glassware company, which conflated Homburg and Rex to create the brand name. The headquarter was in Bad Homburg....
  
   — (1923–1960)
• Hoffmann (motorcycle)
  Hoffmann (motorcycle)
  Hoffmann was a bicycle manufacturer in Ratingen-Lintorf, Germany. Between 1949 and 1954 the company also manufactured motorcycles. It made a range of models using engines from 125cc to 250cc made by ILO, and the Gouverneur, which had a transversely-mounted 248cc flat twin four-stroke engine...
  
   — (1949–1954)
• Killinger and Freund Motorcycle
  Killinger and Freund Motorcycle
  The Killinger and Freund Motorcycle was an attempt in 1935 by a group of five German engineers from Munich to design a more streamlined and modified version of the German Megola front-wheel drive motorcycle. The work took three years to complete but the result was impressive...
  
  
• Kreidler
  Kreidler
  Kreidler was a German manufacturer of small motorcycles and mopeds, based in Kornwestheim, between Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart. The company was founded in 1903 as "Kreidlers Metall- und Drahtwerke" by Anton Kreidler and started to build motorcycles in 1951. In 1959 one third of all German...
  
   — (1951–1982)

• Maico
  Maico
  For the manga series, see Maico 2010.Maicowerk A.G. was founded in 1926, originally assembling 98 and 123 cc Ilo two stroke motors. After World War II the West German motorcycle manufacturer began producing its own unit construction two stroke engines, selling engines and complete motorcycles...
  
   —
• Mars
  Mars (motorcycle)
  Mars was a manufacturer in Nürnberg, Germany founded in 1873 that manufactured motorcycles in various periods from 1903 until 1958. Production was interrupted variously by the First World War, hyperinflation in the 1920s and the Second World War...
  
   — (1903–1958)
• Megola
  Megola
  The Megola was a German motorcycle produced between 1921 and 1925 in Munich. Like Bimota, the name is a portmanteau derived loosely from the names of its designers Meixner, Cockerell, and Landgraf.-An Unusual Design:...
  
   — (1921–1925)
• Münch
  Münch (motorcycles)
  The Münch was a German motorcycle manufacturer.They produced between 1966 and 1980. Using a URS engine, they won the 1971 World Sidecar Championship.-Literature:...
  
   — (1966–1980)
• MuZ —
• Neander
  Neander (motorcycle)
  Ernst Neumann-Neander founded the Neander Motorfahrzeug GmbH Düren-Rölsdorf in Düren in 1926. He designed the futuristic Neander-Rahmen , which was made from box-section Duralumin and had a unique design of pivoted front fork. From 1928 Opel also manufactured the same frame under licence, and it...
  
   — (1924–1932)
• NSU —(1901–1960)
• Opel
  Opel
  Adam Opel AG, generally shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929...
  
   — (1901–1930)
• Orionette
  Orionette
  Orionette is a historic German motorcycle brand.The Orionette AG für Motorfahrzeuge was a German motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1921. The company's headquarters was the Industriehof Oranienstraße 6 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. There was also the serial production of the Orionette...
  
   — (1921–1925)
• Simson
  Simson
  Simson was a German company which produced firearms, automobiles, motorcycles, and mopeds. Under Nazi rule, the factory was seized from the Jewish Simson family, and was renamed several times under Nazi and later Communist control. The Simson name was reintroduced as a brand name for mopeds made at...
  
   — (1948-1963)
• Triumph (Nürnberg)
  Triumph (TWN)
  Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG or TWN, was German bicycle and motorcycle company. In 1886, Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph bicycle factory in Coventry, England, and in 1896 he founded a second bicycle factory in his native Nuremberg, Germany, under the same Triumph name...
  
   — (1903–1957)
• Victoria
  Victoria (motorcycle)
  Victoria was a bicycle manufacturer in Nürnberg, Germany that made motorcycles from about 1901 until 1966. It should not be confused with a lesser-known, unrelated Victoria Motorcycle Company in Glasgow, Scotland that made motorcycles between 1902 and 1928....
  
   — (1899–1966)
• Wanderer
  Wanderer (car)
  Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.-History:Winklhofer &...
  
   — (1902–1929)
• Zündapp
  Zündapp
  Zündapp was a major German motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1917 in Nuremberg by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and the machine tool manufacturer Thiel under the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau G.m.b.H." as a producer of detonators...
  
   —

East Germany

• AWO — (1950–1957)
• BMW — (1945–1952)
• EMW — (1952–)
• IFA —
• MZ
  MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk
  MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk GmbH is a motorcycle manufacturer located in Zschopau, Germany. MZ an acronym, stands for Motorradwerk Zschopau in the Erzgebirge region of Saxony...
  
   —
• Simson —

Greece

• Alta
  Alta (vehicles)
  Alta was a Greek manufacturer of light and heavier three-wheeler trucks, motorcycles and passenger cars. Production of motorcycles and three-wheeler trucks with Sachs 50cc engines started in its first factory in Athens in 1962. The 50S motorcycle model was known for its reliability...
  
   — (1962–1972)
• Lefas
  Lefas
  Lefas is the brand name of the motorcycles, engines and other systems created by the Greek engineer Thanassis Lefas.Lefas was a brilliant engineer who devoted his career in improving the motorcycle design, but not nearly as good an entrepreneur as reflected by the fate of his designs...
  
   — (1982–2005)
• Maratos
  Maratos
  The Greek Maratos Brothers' first product was a motorcycle they built in Thessaloniki in the 1920s. It is not known whether there was any intent of producing the motorcycle, but the Brothers , among other similar activities, were involved from 1945 in a more "industrial" process, transforming...
  
   — (1920s)
• MEBEA
  MEBEA
  MEBEA was an important Greek vehicle manufacturer, producer of light trucks, passenger automobiles, motorcycles, motorbike engines, agricultural machinery and bicycles....
  
   — (1960–1975)
• Mego
  Mego (motorbikes)
  Mego was a Greek light vehicle manufacturer, based in Trikala. It started business in 1947 producing 3-wheel utility bicycles to be followed in 1951 by motorized three-wheel utility vehicles with 50-100cc engines and an unconventional layout...
  
   — (1962–1992)

Hungary

• Csepel — (1951–1975)
• Pannónia — (1951–1975)
• Danuvia — (1955–1967) Reopened in 2004 http://www.danuvia.hu

Italy

• Aermacchi — (1945–1979)
• Aeromere/Capriolo
  Aeromere/Capriolo
  Capriolo, later called Aeromere, was the name of the motorcycle production arm of the Italian aircraft company Aeromere or Aero-Caproni. After World War II, the victorious Allies prohibited wartime aircraft and other military hardware suppliers from remaining in their previous industries, and...
  
   (1948—1964)
• Autozodiaco— (1968–1981)
• Bianchi
  Bianchi (motorcycles)
  Bianchi motorcycles were made from 1897 to 1967 by F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A, a company which today is a major Italian bicycle manufacturer, and who also produced automobiles from 1900 to 1939. Edoardo Bianchi started his bicycle manufacturing business in a small shop on Milan’s Via Nirone in 1885...
  
   — (1897–1967)
• Caproni
  Caproni
  thumb|right|300px|[[Caproni Ca.316]] seaplane at its moorings.Caproni was an Italian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1908 by Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni....
  
   — (1953–1959)
• Ceccato motorcycles
  Ceccato motorcycles
  Ceccato was an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1947 by a former pharmacist, Pietro Ceccato, who was passionate about both engines and innovative management ideas, such as making process changes using input invited from employees...
  
   (1949—1960s)
• CM (1930–1957)
• Della Ferrera
  Della Ferrera
  Della Ferrera is an Italian motorcycle marque founded by the Della Ferrera brothers in Torino . The early Della Ferrera motorcycles were powered by fairly robust 498cc, 598cc, 746cc, and 996cc two cylinder engines; and 498cc and 637cc one cylinder engines...
  
   — (1909–1938)
• FB Mondial
  Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer)
  FB-Mondial was a motorcycle manufacturer from Milan, Italy between 1948 and 1979, known for its Grand Prix motorcycle racing successes during the 1950s. Prior to World War II, it manufactured delivery tricycles...
  
   —
• Frera
  Frera
  Frera is a historic brand of motorcycles. Until late 1920s Frera was one of the leading Italian motor brands....
  
   — (1906–1936)
• Garelli —
• Iso —
• Lamborghini
  Lamborghini
  Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini , is an Italian car manufacturer. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like...
  
   (Only 5 or 6 Lamborghini-badged concept bikes made by a French contractor in 1986.)

• Laverda
  Laverda
  Laverda was an Italian manufacturer of high performance motorcycles. The motorcycles in their day gained a reputation for being robust and innovative....
  
   — (1948-?)
• Miller-Balsamo — (1921–1959)
• Morbidelli
  Morbidelli
  Morbidelli was an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded by Giancarlo Morbidelli in Pesaro, whose 125 cc racing motorcycles were particularly successful from 1975 to 1980. The team was 125 cc world champion in years 1976, 1977 and 1978, and 250 cc champion in 1977...
  
   —
• Moretti — (1934–1952)
• Ollearo — (1921–1953)
• Parilla — (1946–1967)
• Moto Rumi
  Moto Rumi
  The Moto Rumi organisation was formed at the beginning of the twentieth century and originally supplied cast components to the textile machinery industry. At the outbreak of World War II, Rumi became involved in the manufacture of armaments, miniature submarines and torpedoes. After the end of the...
  
   — (1950–1962)
• Sertum — (1932–1951)
• SWM
  SWM (motorcycles)
  SWM was founded in 1971 by Piero Sironi and Fausto Vergani and was based in Milan, Italy. SWM manufactured Observed Trials, Enduro, Motorcross and off-road motorcycles in the 1970s and 1980s. They started with small capacity Sachs engined enduro bikes and began making Rotax engined trials bikes in...
  
   —
• Taurus — (1933–1966)
• Tecnomoto —
• VOR — (1998–2005)

Japan

• Bridgestone
  Bridgestone
  The is a multinational rubber conglomerate founded in 1931 by in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese....
  
   —
• Cabton —
• Fuji
  Fuji Heavy Industries
  , or FHI, is a Japanese transportation conglomerate most known for being the manufacturer of Subaru automobiles. It traces its roots to the Nakajima Aircraft Company, a leading supplier of airplanes to the Japanese government during World War II...
  
  
• Hodaka
  Hodaka
  Hodaka was a joint Japanese and American company that manufactured motorcycles in the 1960s and 1970s.The company also went by the name PABATCO, for Pacific Basin Trading Company. Its headquarters were in the rural town of Athena, Oregon. Pabatco was owned by Shell Oil Company from 1965 to 1978...
  
   —
• Hosk —
• Marusho
  Marusho
  was a company that manufactured motorcycles from 1948 to 1967. The company's Lilac model motorcycle garnered attention when it was recognized as one of the 180 best pieces of engineering in Japan .-History:...
  
   — (1948–1967)
• Meguro —
• Mitsubishi
  Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon
  The Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon is a series of scooters made in Japan by Mitsubishi between 1946 and 1963. The first was the C-10, based on a scooter imported from the United States by Koujiro Maruyama, which began production at the Nagoya Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...
  
   — (1946–1963)
• Miyata
  Miyata
  Miyata is a Japanese bicycle and unicycle manufacturer that has been in operation since 1892.Miyata claims to have been the first Japanese manufacturer of flash-butt welded frame tubes and the first to use electrostatic painting ....
  
   —
• Rikuo —
• Tohatsu
  Tohatsu
  The Tohatsu Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, was founded in 1922. It manufactures and sells outboard motors, pleasure boats, portable fire pumps, small fire trucks, pumps for construction and drainage, refrigeration units for transportation and also does real estate property management in Japan.The...
  
   —

Mexico

• Carabela —
• Cooper
  Cooper (motorcycles)
  Cooper was a brand of off-road motorcycles made in Mexico using engine parts made in Italy and later, engines made by Sachs. Imported into the United States in the early 1970s by Frank Cooper and sold as Cooper. Frank Cooper was a dealer for Maico when he contracted with Mexican motorcycle company,...
  
   — (1971–1975)
• Islo — (1955–1982)

Pakistan

• Grace Motor Cycles
• Dawood Yamaha
• Excel
• Geo
• Ghani
• Hero
• Super Asia
• Suzuki Motorcycles Pakistan Ltd.
• Target
• Super Star
• Toyo
• United
• Laser
• Pak Hero
• Shahsawar Motorcycle
• Treet Motorbike Company
• Crown Lifan
• Unique
• Super Power

Poland

• CWS —
• SFM —
• Sokół —
• WFM —
• SHL —

Portugal

• Casal —
• Celestino (motorcycle) —
• Confersil —
• EFS —
• Famel
  FAMEL
  FAMEL - Fabrica de Produtos Metalicos Lda, was one of the largest Portuguese motorcycle manufacturers between 60's and 80's.Based in Águeda, the company built several models using Zündapp engines.The most popular model was the XF17...
  
   —
• Fundador —
• Macal — (1921–2004)
• Nacional —
• Pachancho —
• SIS
  SIS (motorbikes)
  SIS was an important Portuguese motorbike manufacturer, based in Anadia. In addition to motorbikes it produced light three-wheeler pickup trucks . Its products used Sachs engines and were quite successful in the local market, especially in the 1970s....
  
   —
• Vilar —
• Vouga —

Spain

• Bultaco
  Bultaco
  Bultaco was a Spanish manufacturer of two-stroke motorcycles from 1958 to 1983.-Origins:The origin of the Bultaco motorcycle company dates back to May 1958. Francisco "Paco" Bultó was a director of the Montesa motorcycle company founded in 1944. After several years of steady growth and road racing...
  
   — (1958–1983)
• Lube
  Lube Motorcycles
  Founded in 1947, Lube Motorcycles was a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer, based in Barakaldo. Their motorcycles used engines from NSU, another motorcycle manufacturer....
  
   — (1947- )
• MotoTrans
  MotoTrans
  MotoTrans is a Spanish company which produced motorcycles and scooters between 1957 and 1983 when it was bought by Yamaha.MotoTrans was famous for licensing Ducati engines and using them in MotoTrans motorcycles as well as building Ducati motorcycles incorporating small differences.Grupo Mototrans...
  
  — (1957–1983)
• Montesa
  Montesa Honda
  Montesa Honda is the Spanish subsidiary of Honda, which assembles several models of motorcycles, bicycles, and parts at its Barcelona plant. The company exports 75 per cent of its production to Europe.-Permanyer and Bultó:...
  
   — (1945–1981)
• Ossa
  Ossa (motorcycle)
  Ossa was a motorcycle manufacturer based in Catalonia, Spain which was active from 1924 to 1982. Founded by Manuel Giró, an industrialist from Barcelona, Ossa was best known for lightweight two-stroke-engined bikes used in Observed Trials and Motocross...
  
   — (1924–1982)
• Sanglas — (1942–1981)

Sweden

• Aktiv
  Aktiv
  Aktiv Was trademark of Swedish Aktiv Maskin Östersund ltd. Company started producing agriculture machines and tracked vehicles. Company sold agriculture division to Electrolux and focused to tracked vehicles in 1980. Company stopped working in 1991....
  
   — 1927-1937
• Blixtmotorn —
• Gladiator
  Gladiator
  A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the...
  
   —
• Gripen —
• Hedlund —
• Husqvarna
  Husqvarna Motorcycles
  Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...
  
   —
• Jagaren —
• Monark
  Monark
  Monark, also known as Cykelfabriken Monark AB and Monark AB, is a Swedish bicycle, moped and motorcycle manufacturer, established in Varberg, Sweden 1908 by the industrialist Birger Svensson....
  
   —
• Nordstjernan
  Nordstjernan
  Nordstjernan is a Swedish investment company. Nordstjernan is a fourth-generation family company controlled by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. The origin is the shipping company Nordstjernan, which was founded in 1890.-The first generation:...
  
   —
• Svalan —
• Viking
  Viking
  The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
  
   —

United Kingdom

• AJW — (1928–1977)
• Ambassador
  Ambassador Motorcycles
  Ambassador Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Founded by racer Kaye Don after the Second World War, the company produced lightweight motorcycles with Villiers and JAP engines and imported Zundapps from Germany. Production started in 1947 with a 197 cc Villiers-engined bikes...
  
   — (1946–1964)
• AMC
  Associated Motor Cycles
  Associated Motor Cycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded by the Collier brothers as a parent company for the Matchless and AJS motorcycle companies...
  
   — (1938–1966)
• Ariel
  Ariel (vehicle)
  Ariel was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile marque manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England. Car production moved to Coventry in 1911. The company name was reused in 1999 for the formation of Ariel Ltd, a sports car producer.-History:...
  
   — (1902–1970)
• Armstrong — (1980–1987)
• Beardmore Precision
  William Beardmore and Company
  William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active between about 1890 and 1930 and at its peak employed about 40,000 people...
  
   — (1921–1924)
• Blackburne
  Blackburne (motorcycles)
  Blackburne was a trade name of Burney and Blackburne Limited a British manufacturer of motorcycles from 1913 to 1922 at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey...
  
   — (1913–1921)
• Brough
  Brough Motorcycles
  Brough Motorcycles were made by William E. Brough in Nottingham, England, from 1908 to 1926.Brough motorcycles were flat-tanked motorcycles that used a variety of engines...
  
   — (1908–1926)
• Brough Superior
  Brough Superior
  Brough Superior motorcycles, sidecars, and motor cars were made by George Brough in his Brough Superior works on Haydn Road in Nottingham, England, from 1919 to 1940. They were dubbed the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles" by H. D. Teague of The Motor Cycle newspaper. Approximately 3,048 of 19 models...
  
  ³ — (1919–1940)
• BSA
  Birmingham Small Arms Company
  This article is not about Gamo subsidiary BSA Guns Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP or BSA Company or its successors....
  
   — (1905–1973)
• Calthorpe
  Calthorpe cars
  The Calthorpe Motor Company based in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England made a range of cars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1904 to 1932.-Formation:...
  
   —
• Clarendon —
• Clyno
  Clyno
  Developing from a motorcycle manufacturer, the Clyno Engineering Company Ltd, founded by Frank Smith, became the surprise success of British car manufacturing in the 1920s becoming the country's third largest car manufacturer in 1926...
  
   — (1908–1923)
• Cotton
  Cotton (motorcycle)
  The Cotton Motorcycle Company, was a British motorcycle manufacturer of 11a Bristol Road, Gloucester, and was founded by Frank Willoughby Cotton in 1918. F.W. presided over the company until his retirement in 1953. The company was reconstituted as E. Cotton Ltd, and traded till 1980.-The...
  
   —
• Coventry-Eagle
  Coventry-Eagle
  Coventry-Eagle was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Established as a Victorian bicycle maker, the company began under the name of Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek. The company name was changed to Coventry Eagle in 1897 when John Meek left the company .. By 1898 they had begun to experiment with motorised...
  
   —
• DOT
  Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company
  The Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Company was established by Harry Reed in Salford, England, in 1903. By 1906 they had built their first motorcycle, using a Peugeot engine.-Harry Reed years :...
  
   —
• Douglas
  Douglas (motorcycles)
  Douglas was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1907–1957 based in Kingswood, Bristol, owned by the Douglas family, and especially known for its horizontally opposed twin cylinder engined bikes and as manufacturers of speedway machines...
  
   — (1907–1957)
• EMC — (1946–1977)
• Excelsior (Coventry) — (1896–1965)
• Greeves
  Greeves (motorcycles)
  Greeves Motorcycles Ltd is a British motorcycle manufacturer producing motorcycles mainly for the trials and off-road market. Owner Richard Deal bought the rights to the Greeves name in May 1999. The original company had been producing motorcycles since 1952, funded by a contract with the...
  
   —
• Haden
  Haden (motorcycle)
  A.H. Haden Motorcycles was a British motorcycle marque from Birmingham.Haden was originally a bicycle-making business in Hockley, Birmingham, begun in the late 1880s, after the safety bicycle was introduced. The business passed from George Joseph Haden to his son Alfred Hamlet Haden, who continued...
  
   —
• Hesketh
  Hesketh Motorcycles
  Hesketh Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, based in Daventry and Easton Neston.The company was formed by Alexander, 3rd Lord Hesketh, in 1980, then after his two ventures went bust from 1984 onwards, the marque has been maintained and improved by Broom Engineering, now based at...
  
   — (1982–1984)
• Francis-Barnett
  Francis-Barnett
  Francis-Barnett was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1919, by Gordon Inglesby Francis and Arthur Barnett, and based in Lower Ford Street, Coventry, England,...
  
   — (1919–1966)
• HRD² —
• Ivy
  Ivy (motorcycles)
  Ivy was a motorcycle manufacturer between 1907 and 1934 in Birmingham, England. It was run by various brothers from the Newman family. Ivy built about 6,000 motorcycles of various models. Most used two-stroke engines made by either J.A.P. or Precision, but there was also an engine designed and...
  
   — (1907–1934)
• James
  James Cycle Co
  The James Cycle Co Ltd., Greet, Birmingham, England, was one of many famous British cycle and motorcycle makers centred around the English Midlands, particularly Birmingham...
  
   —
• JAP —
• Levis
  Levis (motorcycle)
  Levis motorcycles , manufactured by Butterfields of Birmingham, were for many years one of England's leading manufacturers of two-stroke motorcycles...
  
   — (1911–1939)
• Martinsyde
  Martinsyde
  Martinsyde was a British aircraft and motorcycle manufacturer between 1908 and 1922, when they were forced into liquidation by a factory fire.-History:...
  
   — (1908–1923)
• Matchless
  Matchless
  Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966. A wide range of models was produced under the Matchless name, ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc four-stroke twins...
  
   — (1899-
• Ner-a Car
  Ner-a Car
  The Ner-a-Car was a type of feet forwards motorcycle designed by Carl Neracher in 1918. Around 6,500 Ner-a-Cars are believed to have been produced between 1921 and 1927 in England, and about 10,000 Neracars in the US...
  
   — (1921–1927)

• New Hudson —
• New Imperial — (1901–1939)
• Norman
  Norman Cycles
  Norman Cycles was a British bicycle, autocycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturer based in Ashford, Kent, England.The company and its products are remembered today by the Norman Cycles Club which is based at Willesborough Windmill, in Willesborough, Ashford...
  
   —
• Norton (reformed in 2008) — (1902- )
• OK-Supreme
  OK-Supreme
  OK-Supreme was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1899 to 1939 located in Birmingham. Grass-track racing versions of the machines continued to be available until 1946.-History:...
  
   — (1882–1940)
• OEC
  Osborn Engineering Company
  Osborn Engineering Company was a British manufacturer of motorcycles, which sold its machines under the OEC brand name.The company was founded by John Osborn in 1901, producing Minerva engined bikes. Later machines used a variety of engines from companies such as Blackburne, and JAP. In 1927 OEC...
  
   — (1901–1954)
• Palmelli —
• Panther
  Phelon & Moore
  Phelon & Moore manufactured motorcycles in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England from 1904 to 1967 particularly those under the Panther marque. They became identified with one particular design of motorcycle which had a large sloping 40-degree single-cylinder engine as a stressed front frame member...
  
   —
• Quadrant
  Quadrant (motorcycles)
  Quadrant was one of the earliest British motorcycle manufacturers, established in Birmingham in 1901. Famous for their big singles, Quadrant pioneered many innovations that proved important for motorcycle development but struggled after the First World War and the company was wound up in...
  
   — (1901–1928)
• Quasar
  Quasar (motorcycle)
  The Quasar was a semi-enclosed feet forward motorcycle, created by Malcolm Newell and Ken Leaman,who made a number of similar vehicles.It used an 850 cc engine built by Reliant Motors and was capable of cruising at 90–100 mph and exceeding 100 mph in favourable...
  
   — (1977–1985)
• Raleigh
  Raleigh Bicycle Company
  The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a bicycle manufacturer originally based in Nottingham, UK. It is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. From 1921 to 1935 Raleigh also produced motorcycles and three-wheel cars, leading to the formation of the Reliant Company.-Early years:Raleigh's history...
  
   — (1899–1967)
• Redrup Radial — (1919–1922)
• Rickman — (1960–1975)
• Royal Enfield
  Royal Enfield
  Royal Enfield was the name under which the Enfield Cycle Company made motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines. This legacy of weapons manufacture is reflected in the logo, a cannon, and their motto "Made like a gun, goes like a bullet". Use of the brand name Royal Enfield was...
  
   — production continues in India
• Rudge-Whitworth —
• Scott
  The Scott Motorcycle Company
  The Scott Motorcycle Company was owned by Scott Motors Limited, Shipley, West Yorkshire, England and was a well known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry...
  
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• Singer
  Singer (car)
  Singer was an automobile company founded in 1905 in Coventry, England. It was acquired by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom in 1956, who continued the brand until 1970...
  
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• Sprite
  Sprite (motorcycle)
  Sprite is a historical British make of motorcycle, built by Hipkin & Evans, Sprite Motor Cycles, Oldbury, and later by Sprite Developments Ltd., Halesowen, Worcester ....
  
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• Spryt —
• Stevens — (1934–1938)
• Sun
  Sun (motorcycle)
  The Sun Cycle & Fittings Co. Ltd. was an English manufacturer of motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles. The company was based in Aston, Birmingham.The company was founded as James Parkes & Son, a brass foundry producing lamp fittings and various other products...
  
   — (1911–1961)
• Sunbeam
  Sunbeam (motorcycle)
  Sunbeam was a British manufacturing marque that produced bicycles and motorcycles from 1912 to 1956. Originally independent, it was ultimately owned by BSA...
  
   —
• Triumph Engineering Ltd (reformed in the 1980s and now still made) — (1902- )
• Velocette
  Velocette
  Velocette is the name given to motorcycles that were made by Veloce Ltd, in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. One of several motorcycle manufacturers in Birmingham, Velocette was a small, family-owned firm, selling far fewer hand-built motorcycles than the giant BSA, Norton or Triumph concerns...
  
   — (1904–1968)
• Villiers —
• Vincent HRD — (1928- )
• Vincent —
• Wooler
  Wooler (motorcycles)
  Wooler was a British manufacturer of motorcycles and other vehicles, founded by engineer John Wooler in 1911 based in Alperton, Middlesex. The company became known for its unconventional designs which included several fore-and-aft twins, a vertical camshaft single cylinder machine, a...
  
   — (1911–1954)
• YORK Coventry — (1920–1932)
• Zenith — (1905–1949)

United States

• Ace
  Ace Motor Corporation
  Ace Motor Corporation was a motorcycle manufacturer in operation continuously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1919 and 1924 and intermittently afterward until 1927...
  
   — (1920–1927)
• American Ironhorse
  American IronHorse
  American IronHorse was an American motorcycle manufacturer that was founded in 1995 by Tim Edmundson and Bill Rucker. At one time, AIH was the largest factory producer of custom motorcycles in the USA. Their factory was located in Fort Worth, Texas, and housed the complete manufacturing process...
  
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• Arrow — (1909–1914)
• Buell Motorcycle Company
  Buell Motorcycle Company
  The Buell Motorcycle Company was an American motorcycle manufacturer based in East Troy, Wisconsin and founded in 1983 by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell.Harley-Davidson acquired 49% of Buell in 1993, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary by 2003....
  
   — (1983–2009)
• California Motorcycle Company
  California Motorcycle Company
  The California Motorcycle Company was a motorcycle company that later became incorporated into the modern incarnation of the Indian Company. They produced a number of made-to-order motorcycle designs based on Harley Davidson designs and aesthetics....
  
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• Cleveland — (1902–1927)
• Crocker
  Crocker Motorcycles
  The Crocker Motorcycle Company was an American manufacturer of single-cylinder speedway racing motorcycles from 1932, powerful V-twin road motorcycles from 1936, and the "Scootabout," one of the first modern styled motor scooters, in the late 1930s. Production ceased in 1942...
  
   — (1936–1941)
• Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
   — (1902–1910)
• Cushman
  Cushman
  Cushman is a manufacturer of industrial vehicles, personal vehicles, and other custom vehicles, including parking patrol auto rickshaws.- Models :* Haulster, small industrial multi-purpose truck.* Truckster* Bellhop Series, golf carts....
  
   — (1936–1965)
• Emblem (1909–1925)
• Excelsior (Chicago) — (1907–1931)
• Excelsior-Henderson — (1993 / 1998-2001)
• Harley-Davidson
  Harley-Davidson
  Harley-Davidson , often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression...
  
   — (1903–present)
• Henderson
  Henderson Motorcycle
  Henderson produced 4-cylinder motorcycles from 1912 until 1931. They were the largest and fastest motorcycles of their time, and appealed to sport riders and police departments. Police favored them for traffic patrol because they were faster than anything on the roads...
  
   — (1911–1931)
• Hodaka
  Hodaka
  Hodaka was a joint Japanese and American company that manufactured motorcycles in the 1960s and 1970s.The company also went by the name PABATCO, for Pacific Basin Trading Company. Its headquarters were in the rural town of Athena, Oregon. Pabatco was owned by Shell Oil Company from 1965 to 1978...
  
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• Indian
  Indian (motorcycle)
  Indian is an American brand of motorcycles. Indian motorcycles were manufactured from 1901 to 1953 by a company in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, initially known as the Hendee Manufacturing Company but which was renamed the Indian Manufacturing Company in 1928. The Indian factory team took the...
  
   — (1901-
• Iver Johnson
  Iver Johnson
  Iver Johnson was a U.S. firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer from 1871 to 1993. The company shared the same name as its founder, Norwegian-born Iver Johnson .- Iver Johnson :...
  
   — (1907–1916)
• Marsh — (1899–1913)

• Militaire — (1911–1919)
• Mustang
  Mustang (motorcycle)
  The Mustang was a miniature motorcycle built in Glendale, California by John Gladden from 1945 to 1963. Most models featured a proprietary single-cylinder side-valve engine of 320cc and wheels....
  
   — (1945–1963)
• Ner-a Car
  Ner-a Car
  The Ner-a-Car was a type of feet forwards motorcycle designed by Carl Neracher in 1918. Around 6,500 Ner-a-Cars are believed to have been produced between 1921 and 1927 in England, and about 10,000 Neracars in the US...
  
   — (1921–1927)
• Merkel — (1902–1915)
• Pierce — (1909–1913)
• Pope — (1911–1918)
• Reading Standard — (1903–1922)
• Rokon —
• Sears — (1912–1916) (1953–1963)
• Simplex (Louisiana) — (1935–1960)
• Schickel — (1912–1919)
• Thor — (1907–1917)
• Yale (motorcycles) —
• Yankee
  Yankee (motorcycle)
  The Yankee motorcycle is a motorcycle which was produced in Schenectady, New York by the Yankee Motor Company in the 1970s. This company was started by John Taylor, a long-time resident of that area....
  
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• Victory
  Victory Motorcycles
  Victory Motorcycles is a motorcycle manufacturer based in Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States, which began production of its vehicles in 1998. Its parent company, Polaris Industries, created the firm following the modern success of Harley-Davidson...
  
   — (1998–present)

Soviet Union

• Cossack —
• GMZ — (1941–1949)
• KMZ
  Dnepr (motorcycle)
  Dnepr is the brand name of heavy motorcycles produced in Kiev, Ukraine. It has been in use since 1967.Motorcycles have been produced in Kiev since 1946 at the Kiev Motorcycle Plant . Initial production was of a 98 cc two-stroke model that was confiscated from the German firm Wanderer as...
  
   — (1945–1990)
• MMZ
  MMZ (motorcycle)
  MMZ or Moskovskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod was a motorcycle manufacturer, based in Moscow. It commenced operations in 1941 building the M-72, a Soviet licensed copy of the BMW R71. With the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the plant was transferred east to the town of Irbit in the Ural region...
  
   — (1941, 1946–1951)
• NATI
  NATI (motorcycle)
  NATI Nauchnyj avtotraktornyj institut was a manufacturer of motorcycles in the Soviet Union from 1931 -1933. It built the NATI-A-750, designed by Soviet engineer Pyotr Mozharov, prior to the transfer of manufacturing to PMZ....
  
   — (1931–1933)
• PMZ
  PMZ (motorcycle)
  PMZ or Podol'skom Mekhanicheskom Zavode was a motorcycle manufacturer in the Soviet Union. In 1935 they commenced series production of the PMZ-A-750 which had been design by Pyotr Mozharov at NATI, for the Soviet Army....
  
   — (1935–1939)
• TIZ
  TIZ (motorcycle)
  TIZ or Taganrogskiy Instrumentalniy Zavod No. 65 named after Stalin ) was a motorcycle manufacturer. In 1936 they commenced building the TIZ-AM-600 , a Soviet copy of the BSA 1931 Sloper 600. With the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, the plant was transferred east to the town of Tyumen in the...
  
   — (1936–1941)
• TMZ
  TMZ (motorcycle)
  TMZ or Tyumenskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod , was a motorcycle manufacturer in the Soviet Union. It was created following the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, when TIZ or Taganrogskiy Instrumentalniy Zavod No. 65 named after Stalin TMZ (ТМЗ) or Tyumenskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod (Тюменский...
  
  — (1941–1943)

External links

• Cyber Motorcycle: an extensive listing of European motorcycle manufacturers