Cotton (motorcycle)

Cotton Motor Company
Founded1918
FounderFrank Willoughby Cotton
Defunct1980 (1980)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
Gloucester
,
United Kingdom
ProductsMotorcycles

The Cotton Motor Company, was a British motorcycle manufacturer of 11a Bristol Road, Gloucester, and was founded by Frank Willoughby Cotton in 1918. F.W. presided over the company until his retirement in 1953. The company was reconstituted as E. Cotton (Motorcycles) Ltd, and traded until 1980. The marque was later resurrected in the late 1990s by a business which manufactured replicas of earlier machines.[1]

Today, the trademark Cotton The Motorcycle Masterpiece belongs to an international business.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cottonhist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ WIPO Cotton The Motorcycle Masterpiece