Howard R Davies founded Vincent in 1924 and won the 1924 Senior Isle of Man TT on his own-make bike but his firm failed in 1927. In 1928 Philip Vincent, a wealthy undergraduate, bought the HRD name and designed a new motorcycle with his own spring frame and marketed it as Vincent HRD, with a choice of mostly JAP or Rudge engines.
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