FEW MODELS HAVE ACHIEVED SUCH A LONG- running level of competitiveness as Velocette’s famous KTT, a motorcycle with a competition career which started in the 1920s and lasted well into the 1950s and beyond.
The 348cc KTT’s success stemmed from its engine; it was way ahead of its time. The first overhead camshaft Velocette engine, in the Model K, was designed by Percy Goodman, of the Velocefounding Goodman family, in 1923, though it was 1925 before it made it to production. The first models had ‘Veloce’ on the petrol tank but soon this changed to Velocette, as that was the name now recognised by enthusiasts around the world. Prior to the Model K, Veloce had been largely the builder of two-strokes: top-quality machines nonetheless, but the first four-stroke
