A.H. Haden Motorcycles was a British motorcycle marque from Birmingham that produced bicycles and later motorbikes from 1880 until the 1930s. After World War II the company transitioned to manufacturing cycle and motorcycle parts, which it did until it closed in 2002 due to global competition.[1]
History
Foundation and peak production
Haden was originally a bicycle-making business in Hockley, Birmingham, begun in the late 1880s, after the safety bicycle was introduced. The business passed from George Joseph Haden to his son Alfred Hamlet Haden, who continued making bicycles from 1902 until 1912. They began manufacturing motorcycles in about 1906, and went into more extensive motorcycle production shortly before the First World War, when in 1913 A. H. Haden bought the Regal motorcycle company.[2]
The Haden marque was best known from 1912 to 1924. The main motorcycle was marketed under the Haden name as the "New Comet", and it was a long-standing independent brand.