World War II
Motorcycles were produced at Coventry until World War II. The town of Coventry was virtually destroyed by the Coventry Blitz (7 September 1940 to May 1941). Tooling and machinery was recovered from the site of the devastation and production restarted at the new plant at Meriden, West Midlands in 1942.
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