Greeves
motorcycles were produced in a purpose-built factory
at Thundersley in Essex, England from 1953 to 1976.
Initially the bikes were an offshoot of the Invacar
company that produced invalid cars and needed to diversify
its products. The founder of the concern was O.B.
(Bert) Greeves MBE.
The bikes exclusively used two-stroke powered, using
proprietary engines from Villiers and British Anzani,
initially and always for the roadsters, but by 1964
they had developed their own engine for competition
use. For a few years, Greeves were remarkably successful
in competition, with wins in the European Motocross
Championship, the Manx Grand Prix, the European Trials
Championship and the Scottish Six Days Trial, and
with Gold medals in the ISDT and the ACU 250cc Road
Race.
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