Coventry Victor

Although it was claimed it flew at Hampton-in-Arden in July 1906, it was just "short hops", and it was reported that "the machine more or less failed due to lack of engine power".

In 1919 Coventry-Victor, using their 688 cc flat-twin engine, started making motorcycle and sidecar combinations, many of which were used as commercial outfits and became one of England's leading producers of horizontally opposed twins.

Examples include the Victoria Motor & Cycle Co, who launched their 688 cc Victor-engined motorcycle in 1919,[9][10] and Grahame-White cyclecars.

By 1926, the company launched a two-seat, three-wheeled car with the single wheel at the rear as the Coventry Victor Midget.

After the Second World War, a prototype codenamed Venus was made with flat-four 747 cc engine never reached production.

The light alloy combined crankcase and water jackets enclosed cast iron wet liner cylinder bores.

[18] The Cox Street address still appeared in later adverts for Coventry Victor Motor Co Ltd.[19] In 1946 The Engineer magazine reported [20] that Coventry Victor had added two new small flat twin petrol engines to their range, of 285 cc and 340 cc, known as the "Midget" - the two models only differing in the cylinder bore (55 mm and 60 mm respectively).

These were available air-cooled (with added fan and cowling for stationary use), and as water cooled units for marine use which included outboard motors.

After the war, Coventry Victor Motor Co produced a range of petrol and diesel engines for marine and industrial use.

Coventry Victor also produced a flat-four air-cooled petrol engine (the AC4 or 'Neptune'), one use of which was in aircraft pressure test trolleys made by Sir George Godfrey & Partners.

Weaver (managing director of the Coventry Victor Motor Co) converted one of these in 1955 for use in a Piper Cub aircraft, naming it the 'Flying Neptune'.

Weaver (Coventry Victor) Ltd. was formed in July 1971 to provide spares and offer a service to maintain existing engines.