In the early 1920s, it seemed there was a motorcycle maker for every letter of the alphabet – in fact, many more than one for the vast majority. Nor was it just every letter of the alphabet, pretty much every city and many larger towns had its very own constructor, too. Take this subject Warwick, a machine about which very little is known but, owing to its name, we can assume where it was built, or at least assembled – but we’ll come to that later.
When our own Richard Rosenthal compiled his Buyer’s Guide – which was later brought together to form a comprehensive reference book, published in 2012 – in the section he mentioned Warwick (number 109, Warwick-WFM), over three pages there was also mentioned ‘Watney,’ ‘Waverley;, Weaver’ and ‘Wee McGregor’ all of which were small manufacturers who operated in the 1921-25 period. And that was just the start of the Ws.
These makers all largely did the same thing, insomuch as they assembled components. Speaking of Waverley, Richard writes:
