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Jack Skipp with his 1930's Cotton Python image
This powerful machine has a single cylinder 500cc engine made by Rudge. The machine is pictured here with its owner the late Mr Jack Skipp of Gloucester who raced it regularly, well into his 80's. Jack, who died in 2004, was a founder member of the Cotton Owners club whose members greatly miss his knowledge, enthusiasm and quiet good humour....
Cotton Motorcycle from the 1920s image
Three early Cotton motorcycles at the 2002 Gloucester Folk Museum Cotton Rally. The 1920s machines had fuel tanks entirely within the triangulated frame....
Cotton 500cc Rudge Python image
This powerful machine from the 1930s has a larger petrol tank and engine than the 1920s Cottons....
1934 500cc Cotton Jap TT Replica image
When supplies of Blackburne engines ceased Cotton's turned to J.A.P. and Rudge Whitworth for supplies. This single cylinder J.A.P. 500cc was built to resemble Isle of Man competition machines of the era....
1960 250cc Cotton Double Gloucester image
A twin cylinder Villier 2-stroke machine named after the local cheese!...
1965 Cotton 250cc Cotton Continental image
The Cotton Continental was a typical product of the 1960s with a twin cylinder Villiers 2-storke engine with semi-enclosed rear wheel and leading link front forks....
Motorcycle Manufacture text
Introductory text about the Cotton Motorcycle Company, founded by Frank Willoughby Cotton in 1918....
Early History and the Triangulated Frame text
Text about the founding of the Cotton Motorcycle Company Ltd. and it's early innovation in frame design....
1920s Isle of Man TT Success text
Text about the Cotton Motorcycle Co's success in the Isle of Man TT races in the 1920s....

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