This is part one of a unique three-part 'film encyclopaedia' chronicling the development of every British motorcycle from 1898.

This episode features machines housed in the UK’s National Motorcycle Museum and shows every make and model from A-Z manufactured in Britain from 1898 to 1929.

In this volume, mechanised transport was poised to replace the horse and the two-wheeled industry was booming. The result was a motorcycle industry that led the world in the opening years of the twentieth century.