I'm not going to tread on John Wakefield's toes with a list of sales bikes, but the editorial section has a continuing feature (very interesting) of the A to Z of motorcycle manufacturers. This issue has Invacar as one of the makes. Quite a good explanation of the rise and fall of the Invacar market, but the last paragraph has me a little puzzled! It implies that the Ministry of Health contract "would give Bert Greeves the funding to concentrate on motorcycles and led to the establishment of his eponymous company - with Derry Preston Cobb as sales manager". I'm led to believe that there never was a company by the Greeves Motorcycles name, but presumably Bert sold his Invacar shares and whatever company bought those, they used their own trading company names. Can anyone clarify this situation?
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Brian. Correct Greeves traded as Invacar Ltd not Greeves Motorcycles, but Richard Deal registered Greeves Motorcycles Ltd to trade in new Greeves. Apparently he also owned Invacar Ltd up to 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved. The name Invacar Ltd was therefor available to buy, which member David Mace has just done https://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/fo...10-invacar-ltd
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