Brough Superior

Brough Superior was a British maker of high-performance motorcycles, sidecars and a few motor cars, built by George Brough at his works on Haydn Road in Nottingham, England, from 1919 to 1940. The machines were nicknamed the Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, were largely custom built to each buyer, and each one was assembled twice, once to fit the parts and again after painting and plating. About 3,000 motorcycles in 19 models were built, the best known being the SS100 and SS80 V-twins. T. E. Lawrence owned eight and died after crashing the seventh. Production ended with the Second World War, when the factory made Rolls-Royce Merlin crankshafts. The name was bought in 2008 and a revived Brough Superior brand has been in serial production since 2016.