The Bikes: Heavyweights - P&R models

The 1.75 h.p. Phelon & Rayner

The first machines in the Panther family tree were made by Phelon and Rayner. There was only one P&R model which was a 1.75 h.p., hand-built in 1901 through to 1903.

1900 Prototype

This is the prototype machine in 1900. (Picture from Robert Shaw)

This is (surely) another view of the 1900 prototype. (The picture was provided by Volker and comes from a book called Ixion-Motorcycle Cavalcade, 1950, Iliffe & Sons, London in which it is, apparently incorrectly, labelled as "The first P.& M. (1902), using the sloping engine as an integral part of the front down tube.)

1901

1902

This is the 1902 production machine. The obvious changes include lights and the petrol tank.

{Thanks to Robert Shaw for the picture.}

1903

This is the P&R machine in 1903, the final year of production. It is shown with a trailer chair.

{Thanks to Robert Shaw for the picture.}

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