Hesketh Motorcycles

Hesketh Motorcycles
IndustryMotorcycle manufacture
Founded1982
FounderAlexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh
Successor
Headquarters
Redhill
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Global
Key people
  • Lord Hesketh (owner)
  • Mick Broom (owner)
  • Paul Sleeman (current owner)
Products
1982 Hesketh V1000 with Astralite wheels[2][3][4]

Hesketh Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, initially based in Daventry and Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, England.

The company was formed by Alexander, 3rd Lord Hesketh, to develop a prototype in 1980. After two variations of his business had rapidly failed, from 1984 onwards the marque was maintained and improved by Broom Engineering based at Turweston Aerodrome, on the Northamptonshire border with Buckinghamshire, England. The most recent incarnation of the marque from 2013 is based in Kingswood, Surrey, England.

  1. ^ Companies House, business name change (from Hesketh Motorcycles Limited) in July 2013 Retrieved 2014-10-06
  2. ^ Motor Cycle News 22 September 1982, p.9 Advert. Astralite wheels, Dawson Harmsworth, 401-403 Penistone Road, Sheffield. Accessed and added 2015-03-07
  3. ^ Astralite wheels by Rennstar Retrieved 2015-03-07
  4. ^ Astralite wheels, Hesketh owners Club Retrieved 2015-03-07