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So, a family trip on Friday to visit Glasgow’s Riverside Transport Museum, with a side objective of checking out if there is anything on display related to the airships constructed a few miles up the Clyde by William Beardmors & Co at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire #R34100 
However, despite the Museum being a fascinating place to visit, there’s nothing on display about Glasgow’s contribution to airship manufacture & surprisingly little about air transport in general. The focus is very much on mass transport, motor cars & sea travel.
But I did find a couple of lateral links to R.34. Firstly, I spotted this superb Beardmore Precision motorbike & sidecar from 1922. Turns out William Beardmore took over the FE Baker Precision m/cycle firm in 1919, manufacturing continuing in the original Birmingham works.
The Precision also had this beautiful brass headlamp
The second link to R.34 #R34100 was the adjacent motorbike & sidecar, a classic Sunbeam S7 with a Watsonian sidecar (from 1954ish). R.34 was powered by five 250hp Sunbeam ‘Maori’ aero engines.
Sunbeam m/cycles & the aero engines were manufactured by 2 separate firms in Wolverhampton, both of which grew out of John Marston’s original bicycle manufacturing business established 1888. The aero engine expertise grew out of designer Louis Coatalen’s love of motor racing.
@threadreaderapp unroll please
My mistake - the Maori engines were 275hp.
