Coventry-Eagle

The motorcycles were hand built from components and finished carefully, Coventry-Eagle motorcycles proved reliable and by the First World War the range included Villiers Engineering and JAP engines. In the early 1920s, Coventry-Eagle changed its models, depending on what engines were available. It swapped between five engine manufacturers: Villiers; JAP; Sturmey-Archer; Blackburne; and Matchless. The model Flying 8 bore a resemblance to the contemporary Brough Superior. During the depression of the 1930s, the company concentrated on producing two-strokes. Production continued until the start of the Second World War in 1939. In the 1930s they had launched a range of sporting bikes under the "Falcon" brand. After the war, and not of a scale to continue competitive motorcycle manufacture, the company concentrated on their racing bicycles. It was under this marque that the company relaunched itself as Falcon Cycles, now a division of Tandem Group.

• Name — Coventry-Eagle • Fate — Closed by World War II • Successor — Falcon Cycles • Founded — 1903 • Defunct — 1939 • Hq Location — Coventry, England • Industry — manufacturing and engineering • Products — Motorcycles and bicycles • Illustration — 1920 Coventry-Eagle with 2.75 hp JAP four-stroke engine • Illustration — Rider on a Coventry-Eagle in, Australia, circa 1935. The machine has a pressed steel frame; Villiers two-stroke engine; and twin exhausts.

• Model — Year — Comments • 269 cc — 1913 — Villiers-powered two-speed • 3.5 hp — 1913 — Single • 5 hp — 1914 — Three-speed V-twin • 500 cc single — 1921 • 680 cc V-Twin — 1921 — JAP engine • Flying 8 — 1923 • 8 hp Super Sports Twin — 1923 • Flying 6 — 1927 — 674 cc side-valve twin • 150 cc — 1935 — Coventry Eagle twin-port two-stroke and with a left-hand gear change and Albion gearbox • L5 249 cc 35 Silent Superb De Luxe — 1935 — Villiers engine and a 4-speed albion gearbox • N35 — 1937 — Flying 350 • N11 250 cc — 1937 — Pullman