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People used to speak of the big-single Panther as 'the biggest aspidistra in the world— and all in one pot'; to others, it was 'Big Pussy'. But whatever terms were used, they were always affectionate, for nobody had an unkind word for the Panther. No sportster, it was almost inevitably hitched to a family saloon sidecar, which it hauled without complaint while sipping fuel in a surprisingly abstemious fashion. | People used to speak of the big-single [[Panther]] as 'the biggest aspidistra in the world— and all in one pot'; to others, it was 'Big Pussy'. But whatever terms were used, they were always affectionate, for nobody had an unkind word for the Panther. No sportster, it was almost inevitably hitched to a family saloon sidecar, which it hauled without complaint while sipping fuel in a surprisingly abstemious fashion. | ||
Strictly speaking, the Panther name did not come into use until the 1923 season to describe a sports version of the 555 cc side-valve, but the principle of the engine serving in place of the frame down tube went back long before that—to the turn of the century, when Joah Phelon took out patents on the idea. Phelon was in partnership with his nephew Harry Rayner in a small precision wire-drawing business at Cleckheaton near Bradford. | Strictly speaking, the Panther name did not come into use until the 1923 season to describe a sports version of the 555 cc side-valve, but the principle of the engine serving in place of the frame down tube went back long before that—to the turn of the century, when Joah Phelon took out patents on the idea. Phelon was in partnership with his nephew Harry Rayner in a small precision wire-drawing business at Cleckheaton near Bradford. | ||