page_title: Pope Manufacturing Company
section_title: Motorcycles
hierarchical_section_title: Pope Manufacturing Company / Motorcycles
caption_attribution_description: English: Pope 1914, own image
context_page_description: Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope around 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, and incorporated in Connecticut in 1877. Manufacturing of bicycles began in 1878 in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Weed Sewing Machine Company factory. Pope manufactured bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. From 1905 to 1913, Pope gradually consolidated manufacturing to the Westfield Mass plant. The main offices remained in Hartford. It ceased automobile production in 1915 and ceased motorcycle production in 1918. The company subsequently underwent a variety of changes in form, name and product lines through the intervening years. Yet all the way up to present-day, bicycles continue to be made available under the Columbia brand.
context_section_description: Pope began manufacturing motorized bicycles in 1902 and continued with motorcycles until 1918.
caption: 1914 Pope motorcycle
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