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McEvoy Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Derby.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Anzani - a company history )〕 The company used engines from Villiers, Blackburne, British Anzani and JAP.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McEvoy Motorcycles )〕 The company ceased trading in 1929 when the financier Cecil 'Archie' Birkin was killed in an accident at the Isle of Man TT.〔 ==History== Eton College graduate Michael McEvoy began his engineering career at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby and started McEvoy Motorcycles in 1924.〔 The first bike from McEvoy Motorcycles was a flat twin produced in 1925 with a British Anzani 1100 cc engine.〔 By 1926 the business was successful enough for McEvoy to leave his job at Rolls-Royce and move to larger premises in Derby. The McEvoy range was developed to include a JAP8/45 hp engined V-twin in an advanced "super sports" frame that was capable of and advertised by McEvoy as "the Fastest all-British big twin that holds all high speed British records worth holding in its class".〔 McEvoy began producing motorcycles with a range of engines, including one with a small 172 cc Villiers engine. All was going well until the company's financial backer, Archie Birkin, died practising for the 1928 Isle of Man TT; the company was wound up in 1929.
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