I don't know if they were first (though I'd like to believe that - allegiance and all), but near the end of Vincent's run ~'55, they produced something called a 'Firefly'. That was ~ a moped-like thing and certainly not successful enough to stem the blood-flow from the expense of making the big singles, Vee-twins, and trying to compete with the Corps via clapped-out WW-II left-over machinery. {sigh} Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

But I also recall this engine being put into a water contraption, another possible venue for survival. Next I see I have to get the story straight. When I first heard it - I'm sure there was nothing like an industry (as for today's toy-affording mass). That's why I remember it as a 'first' or at least near-so. Prolly it had a hull too, as a dim pic swims into the fog.

Anyway, I'd like it if Phil Vincent did come up with a First, however a bit prematurely / simultaneously.. too late :[




Ashton