Steve Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 18 Fri 20th Apr 2012 8:19pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 I've just purchased a 1940 Coventry Eagle twinport motorcycle, one of the last ever made, so I can bring a bit of Coventrys motorcycling heritage back home where it belongs, and I have a few questions about where exactly it was made. Does anyone on here have any idea where the Coventry Eagle factory was on the Foleshill Road or have any photos of it? |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 18 Fri 20th Apr 2012 8:57pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2869 Steve looking at a 1937 map it was just up from the Harnall Lane West junction - on whats now scrub land here. Appropriately it was opposite whats now the Hawk Factory Cycle outlet.
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 18 Fri 20th Apr 2012 9:07pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 So it was basically where the old council depot use to be then? For some reason I thought it was on the other side of the road but I get the feeling Eagle Street always made me think it was by there ![]() |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 4 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 7:21am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:827 I bought a new Coventry Eagle pushbike in 1959. I wonder if this has any connection with the factory you mention. Milly rules |
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 8:42am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 If it's a 1959 bike it would have been made by the same company not long before they moved out of Coventry and became Falcon cycles, but from their factory in Tile Hill as the one in Bishopgate and their other factory in Lincoln Street were both destroyed in the blitz. There is still the odd Coventry Eagle pushbike made but it's usually just a shadow of what the bikes use to be. |
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 6 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 8:56am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 Here she is, although she's still down in Dorset at the minute waiting her return to her birthplace.
I'm actually considering loaning it to the motor museum so people can see a piece of Coventry history.
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 7 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 3:18pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 You're a lucky man Steve, and I hope to see you buzzing round Cov on it before it becomes a museum piece, I ride my 1964 Triumph Tiger 100 regularly as it's my only transport and find folks taking photos of it when it's parked up. ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'. |
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 3:37pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 You just know I'm going to have to ride it about a bit, even if the hand gear change is a bit intimidating ![]() ![]() |
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Catshed Old Chapelfields All posts by this member | 9 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 5:22pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:214 Mine was a bucket of bits when I got her but I've owned her for 29 years and it's never let me down. I had a broken Renold chain on Boxing Day that had only done 3000 miles from new, if it had been a Coventry made chain it would have lasted forever but I will never buy another French made Renold chain again.
BTW I can't count that as the bike letting me down ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'. |
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 10 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 6:45pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 Well that's what you get for using French spares instead of proper bits ![]() |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 11 of 18 Sat 21st Apr 2012 8:52pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2869 Cracking bike, Steve ![]() |
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Steve Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 12 of 18 Sun 22nd Apr 2012 9:04am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:7 You can get a Francis Barnett in restorable condition for a song at the moment, just make sure you get one from before the factory was closed by the ring road being built on the site and they moved out of Cov. Spares parts for them are still real easy to get hold of and quite cheap. |
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gambole1949 maidstone All posts by this member | 13 of 18 Tue 17th Feb 2015 11:25am Member: Joined Feb 2015 Total posts:2 Hi, new to this site but hope someone can help. Does anyone know the make or original style of saddle for a 1940 Coventry Eagle Auto-ette autocycle. Need a new one or a good used one would be fine.
Also can anyone confirm that Levis supplied a 148cc engine for a 1932 Silent Superb built to Coventry Eagle design.
Many thanks, Bud. |
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Norman Conquest Allesley All posts by this member | 14 of 18 Tue 17th Feb 2015 11:46am Member: Joined Oct 2014 Total posts:744 They did a 147cc. Google it, plenty of info' there. Just old and knackered |
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PhilipInCoventry | 15 of 18 Tue 17th Feb 2015 7:37pm |