Packman & Poppe Motorcycles

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Packman & Poppe
company_
fate = wound up
successor =
foundation = 1922
defunct = 1930
location = Coventry UK
industry = manufacturing and engineering
key_people = Erling Poppe and Gilmour Packman
products = motorcycles
num_employees =
parent =
subsid =

Packman & Poppe (P&P) was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Founded by Erling Poppe (who later went on to design Sunbeam motorcycles) and Gilmour Packman the first motorcycle was produced in 1922 with a 250cc two-stroke engine. This was followed by a 976cc side-valve machine with a JAP V-twin engine in 1923 and the Silent Three using a 350cc Barr and Stroud sleeve-valve engine. Packman & Poppe entered three machines into 1925 TT. [cite web|url=http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events/Races.aspx?meet_code=TT25&race_seq=4|title=TT 1925 Lightweight TT Results |accessdate=2008-07-11] Sadly Packman was injured in an argument with a salesman and died. In the same year the Packman & Poppe factory was destroyed by a fire and in 1926 sold to John Wooler, who kept up production until the Depression, in 1930. [cite web|url=http://www.ianchadwick.com/motorcycles/britbikes/brit_p.html|title=Poppe & Packman|accessdate=2008-07-11]

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* [http://www.photoarchives.co.uk/acatalog/O___P_Rare_Ones.html Rare photo of P&P 976cc V twin 1923]