{"id":8882,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museonicolis.com\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:26:05","slug":"premier-3-12-hp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/premier-3-12-hp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier, 1913, 3 1\/2 HP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premier \u201c3 1\/2 HP\u201d, 1913, England<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What we know as Premier was born as\u00a0Hillmann, Herbert & Cooper<\/strong>\u00a0and owned a factory in\u00a0Coventry<\/strong>. In 1885 they designed a bicycle<\/strong> with a peculiar lever system called Kangoroo<\/a><\/strong> (also shown in the museum). The\u00a0Premier Cycle Company<\/strong>\u00a0was born in 1891 and soon becomes the largest bike manufacturer in the world.
\nIn 1908<\/strong> at the London Exhibition at in the Crystal Palace Premier unveiled its first motorcycle, powered by a 427cc \u201cWhite & Poppe\u201d engine. From\u00a01909 <\/strong>to 1914<\/strong>\u00a0the small Premier racing stable <\/strong>name appears in the English Championship chart but never won. In\u00a01921<\/strong>\u00a0the company was absorbed by Singer<\/strong> and Premier motorbikes continued to be made in Czechoslovakia <\/strong>until\u00a01933<\/strong>.
\nAnecdote<\/strong>: The bike shown in the Museo was bought the 21st May, 1913<\/strong>\u00a0by Adolfo Petracchi for his insistent son Torquato, for\u00a01.180 lire.
\n<\/strong>Torquato ignored his father\u2019s advice to go slow, he couldn\u2019t resist \u00a0and reached 40 kph near the city. By doing so, he went over the speed limits and ended up in court. The 13th Octobee the incorrigible Petracchi Junior, speed lover, ran over the unlucky 70-year old Angelo Ceroni: the accident costed him a 250 Lire fine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n