Matchless

The first Matchless motorcycle was made in 1899 and, with a commercial manufacturing history dating from 1901, Matchless is one of the senior marques of the late British motorcycle industry. Matchless produced a wide range of motorbikes to suit all purposes and pockets; their most famous machines are probably the innovative and impressive Silver Arrow and Silver Hawk multi-cylinder bikes of the 1930s. Their wartime G3L was not only one of the most popular British service machines of the Second World War, but was also the first to feature telescopic front works. In the 1950s Matchless's 'Jampot' rear shock absorbers helped define the marque.