What’s in a name?
It’s about time the truth was made clear regarding how Brough Superior gained its name – here is the gospel truth edition – and how it came about.
The naming story starts with Harold Bowden (Sir from 1921, after inheriting his father’s baronetcy), born 1880, a cyclist who took on the firm that he named Raleigh, after the street where the firm was, and later owned Sturmey-Archer of gearbox and hub gear fame.
On May 11, 1916 a 3½hp flat-twin Brough, weighing in at 180lb, was registered in Bowden’s name, bearing a Nottingham
