Anzani Motorcycle Engines
Born in the village of Gorla on the outskirts of Milan in 1878 Anzani learned basic mechanical skills from his.
Anzani motorcycle engines. History specifications and ownership tips. British Anzani Engine Co. Alessandro Anzani developed the first two-row radial from his earlier 3- cylinder Y engine by merging two onto the same crankshaft with a common crankweb.
In later years the company diversified. The Model A 2 was introduced in 1910. The chap who owned the bike I was looking at had also installed reed.
Cotton Tandon and Greeves motorcycles used Anzani motors. Though in later years it was variously entered as a British-Anzani the British Anzani engine company actually built the bike and first owned it an OEC - Temple-Anzani and at one time even a McEvoy - Temple-British-Anzani according to who was picking up the tab at the time it was the brainchild of Claude Temple a Brooklands big-twin. Hubert Hagens Belgian decent became involved to oversee the design and production of some of the most exciting four- and eight-valve ohv V-twin motorcycle and cyclecar engines of the period.
Anzani Engine made by the incredible Mick Cherry this is a 3 cylinder aero engine a radial or a y-engine in configuration. A Morgan fitted with one of these Anzani engines set two World Records in 1922 while Hagens overhead-camshaft v-twin was used by Claude Temple to set several motorcycle World Speed Records the fastest at over 120mph. Designed in 1932 by Douglas Ross it used the bottom half of the single o h c engine that had been made for and used in Archie Frazer-Nashs Slug Anzani intended sales to be to A F N and a letter from Ross in 1933 confirms this but also states that different engine bearer-arms would be required.
British Anzani 250350cc engines. In the UK British Anzani outsourced the manufacture of their engines to Coventry Ordnance Works. La société des moteurs Anzani was an engine manufacturer founded in France by the Italian Alessandro Anzani 1877-1956.
Shot by Simon Robinson at Banbury in 2012 this is the8-valve Anzani-engined Montgomery owned by the National Motorcycle Museum. There were several versions of this engine with different borestroke ratios and capacities of either 1000 or 1100cc. Air-cooled Anzani radials also produced in England and Italy were the best known of this firms engines and this model was one of the earliest air-cooled stationary radial types.