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Velocette Owners Club

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The Old Chapel, Cheney End, Huncote, Leicester LE9 3AD

The Velocette Owners Club has over 2,500 members worldwide who share an enthusiasm for this classic British motorcycle.

Of all the Birmingham manufacturers, Velocette was outsold only by BSA (of Small Heath) and Norton (of Bracebridge Street).

The last Velocette factory was in York Road, Hall Green, Birmingham.

Although often recognised by the UK man-in-the-street for the LE Velocette which was familiar to him as the Police "Noddy" bike, the world knew Velocettes for their classic traditional single-cylinder roadsters and racers.

In 1961 a basically standard Velocette Venom roadster became the first and only 500cc motorcycle to average over 100 mph for 24 hours. No Japanese bike has ever repeated the feat. The unique machine which set this record is on display in the British National Motorcycle Museum.

The firm started as "Veloce" in 1905, with a factory in Gisholt Passage, Spring Hill, Birmingham and after producing a successful little machine called "the Velocette" the name stuck for the whole firm. There is no "french connection", other than an extremely enthusiastic section of the club in France.
To see the entire 24 page Veloce brochure of 1913 which first announced the Velocette, please click Here.

After a period in Six Ways, Aston, the factory moved to Hall Green before the War and stayed there until its demise in 1971.