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Brockhouse is a historic British brand of motorcycles, fully Brockhouse Engineering (Southport) Ltd., Crossens, Southport (1942-1955).
Brockhouse was most likely owned by Excelsior in Birmingham.
Since 1947, Brockhouse produced a burglary version of the Welbike. This was a folding scooter developed for British parachutes. This military version was developed by Lieutenant Colonel J.R.V. Dolpin. After the war, Dolphin had established the "Corgi Motorcycle Company" for the production of burglary versions of the Welbike. The original Welbike had a 98cc Villiers block, but the Brockhouse Corgi was equipped with a Sprinter engine with the same drilling / impact ratio and thus the same cylinder content. The brand Spryt was also owned by Excelsior. The first Brockhouse Corgi, the Corgi MkI, was never delivered under this name. The entire production was shipped to the United States to be sold there (probably through the Sears store chain) under the name of Indian Papoose.
The first Corgi's still had spoke wheels, but soon they were replaced by disk wheels
From 1952 the 248 cc Indian Brave was made with its own one-cylinder side-engine. Indian (or British name rights) was taken over by Brockhouse in 1947.
The name Welbike came from Welwyn Garden City, the campsite where the design team worked.
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