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Humber Motorcycle Books


Humber motorcycle books are about the history of Humber Motorcycles that also includes the manufacture of cars and aircraft.



Humber

Humber Motorcycles was a pioneering British motorcycle manufacturer. Thomas Humber established the company in Beeston, Nottinghamshire in 1868. In 1896 Humber produced the first practical motorcycle made in the UK by fitting a bicycle with a Pennington two-horsepower motor.




A B DEMAUS & J C TARRING

The Humber Story, 1868-1932
1989 ISBN 0-86299-596-5

The book traces the history and development of a company that made bicycles, motor cycles, motor cars and even aeroplanes. It carries a full technical history and chronological table of all models manufactured with production details.




NICK GEORGANO

The Humber
1990 ISBN 0-7478-0057-X

The ancestry of Humber goes back as far as any in the British motor industry, to 1868 when Thomas Humber began to make French-style forerunners to the bicycle, in Nottingham.


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