Go to the Archive indexA snippet of information on Levis and the HEC Power Cycle:
By an odd coincidence, my morning mail recently included a nostalgic inquiry from an old Levis fan, plus a letter from W S Banner, one of the brains behind the pre-war Levis marque. Banner tells me that at the moment the Levis concern does not see its way to the costly re-tooling implied in a return to the full motor cycle market. Levis is, however, exporting a fair number of 80cc two-stroke engines to Continental assemblers. Under the trade name of the HEC Power Cycle that unit enjoyed a nice vogue under the slogan of the ‘Farthing Per Mile’ autocycle. The firm is also marketing air compressors, and a small two-stroke unit for agricultural purposes, but regard their association with complete motor cycles as a thing of the past.
From Ixion’s Occasional Comments in The Motor Cycle, 5 April 1951.
Reprinted: August 1997
About a month later, on 3 May, The Motor Cycle had news of an Apollo autocycle from Sweden: an example of a machin that used the exported Levis engines.
