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Veloce Sales Brochure -
1913
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THE SCOTTISH CYCLIST AND MOTOR CYCLIST-(October 15th, 1913) One Of the most interesting of the light brigade which I have come across is the 2 1/2 h.p. Veloce, on which I have just completed a lengthy test extending over some hundreds of miles of Irish roads of all sorts front the big sixty-foot tar-macadam steam-rolled road (which contrary to popular opinion, does exist in Ireland) to the mountain tracks frequented only by mad motor cyclists and goats The power unit is designed on the lines of car practice, with an intelligent adaption to the needs of the motor cyclist. It possesses that boon we have long sighed for, mechanical lubrication, genuinely automatic in action, for the only attention the system received from me throughout the whole distance was to occasionally fill the sump, and I washed it out twice as a precaution, the engine being straight off the test bench. It speaks well for Veloce manufacturing methods that though the machine had no road test before I received it, it completed the 150 miles from Birmingham to Holyhead without any preparation whatever, and never once required the use of a spanner. The little engine, though small in dimensions has a mighty spirit, and I have yet to find a hill that will stop it; though bad surface might, it seems proof against gradient however steep, and with full throttle it can put the maximum hand of the speedometer to a figure of which no one need be ashamed outside the precincts of a police court. W. M'W. |
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