Heinkel Tourist

The engine of the Tourist was mounted in the frame and drove the rear wheel by a chain enclosed in the swingarm.

[10] All Tourist scooters were powered by overhead valve four-stroke single-cylinder engines.

[3] The Coventry-based Excelsior motorcycle manufacturer began importing HeinkelTourist scooters into the United Kingdom in late 1955.

In late 1956, Nobel Motors of Picadilly became the new official importer of Heinkel scooters and bubble cars.

This may have been part of a deal by which an Irish engineering company to build the Heinkel Kabine bubble car under licence.

[3] Importation of the 103 A2 began in February 1962 by Hans Motors of London, which had an all-German staff.

Trojan Cars Ltd., the manufacturers of the Kabine under licence at the time, was already selling Lambretta scooters and did not accept the offer to import Heinkel Tourists.

[3] Heinkel Tourists were imported into the United States by a succession of authorized distributors:

[5] I See By My Outfit, by American author Peter S. Beagle, recounts a cross-country (New York to San Francisco) journey that he and a friend accomplished on a pair of Heinkel Tourists.