All Speed Gear Syndicate

of 14 Lower Essex Street, Birmingham

1907-08 Produced motorcycles .

1907 Share subscription. 'This company has been registered with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares to acquire British No. 8,983 of 1906, granted to F. H. de Veulle for improvements relating to gradually variable speed gears for cycles and the like, to adopt an agreement with G. F. Taylor, and to carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in hubs, gearing apparatus, and other parts of cycles, motors, and other vehicles, etc. The subscribers are: J. Dring, G. P. Taylor. H. Taylor, E. Wakeman, F. Taylor, S. Ward, and W. G. Robins.'

1907 Late that year the company announced their first motorised model. It was a bicycle fitted with a 1.25hp Minerva engine under the downtube. The transmission was by chain to a countershaft that carried a wheel. This drove the inside of a dummy rim by friction.

1908 Nothing more was heard of the firm after that year.

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