MADE IN WOLVERHAMPTON
In this month’s magazine I am turning our attention to a rather delectable and superbly finished example of a twin 2-stroke 250cc DMW. A DM-what, I hear you say! And rightly too, for indeed I had never heard of one either before this encounter. So let me introduce the name Dawson’s Motorcycles Works – or it could equally be Wolverhampton – and it’s probably best at this point to take a peek at a how this company came about.
DMW, A Potted Visit
DMW Motorcycles of Wolverhampton was the result of a meeting between Leslie Dawson and Harold Nock during the latter years of World War Two. Dawson was a fairly successful grass track rider during the 1920s and 30s, and ran a small garage in Heswall, near Birkenhead. He was fond of
