Meguro 125cc : E1 Regina

Meguro 125cc : E1 Regina is the first two small class vehicle as Meguro.
It is the motorbike by which it was expected that the demand of this class was extended 
 and development was carried out by having revised the license system in 1954, including 
 125 cc class vehicle for which lightweight two-wheeled vehicle license was required till 
 then in the bicycle with a motor (moped) by which classification was newly prepared, 
 and being able to ride now only by operation permission registration.
It will be put on the market from May, 1955 and about 3400 sets are produced by May, 1957 
 when it will change to a succeeding vehicle and E2 Regina(125cc). 
As development of a small two-wheeled vehicle was not easy only for the weight vehicle 
 maker, what it being made a light car and the marks which took pains can be seen and taken.

The transmission which newly developed engine and EH type became the first mono-block unit 
 type as Meguro, and was included in the OHV single cylinder of a boa x stroke, and a 52x58 
 and a long stroke is a four-step rotary type as well as an upper vehicle.
Four steps of gears were the first in this class as that time.
Not a magnet but this has adopted the battery ignition system also for the ignition system 
 for the first time as Meguro.
And a user's convenience is taken into consideration to the starting difficulty in battery 
 going up which is the difficulty of this system as a dynamo style with the capacity 
 performance which can be put into operation also in such a situation.
Although lightweight-ization is started as much as possible, if a frame is compared with 
 the motorbike by which the other company was similar, it is as heavy as 110kg.
However, in the design of a fuel tank, the emblem, and the performance side, it was the 
 model which becomes easy to come to hand by the introduction vehicle-specification to 250cc 
 Junior of an upper vehicle, such as being equal to a lightweight two-wheeled vehicle, to 
 the fan who wants Meguro.
In addition, since the dark blue part is bluish green, the Meguro-wing of the emblem in a 
 fuel tank can be easily distinguished from 125cc vehicle.

Although the small two-wheeled vehicle of Meguro begins from here, it has not left the track 
 record to the degree to expect.
Surely, although the market expanded 125cc class vehicle by revision of a license system, 
 the most is occupied by Honda, SUZUKI, YAMAHA, and the large maker to whom the new small 
 motorbike called TOHATSU is mainly carried out, and a severe competition already trifles 
 with a small and weak motorbike maker.
Meguro needed to sell 125cc class vehicle, in order to overcome this competition, and the 
 cost furnished to exclusive use as a result increased, and it also became the cause of the 
 management crisis of subsequent Meguro.

There are few existing cars and they do not not much have the popularity as a vintage motorbike.
Although it seems that a large majority is a scrap, since a possibility of it having been used 
 at the farmhouse etc. and remaining in the warehouse as it is is also high, it may continue to 
 be discovered.

*** Principal statistics ***
* Total length : 1,975 mm
* Full-width : 760 mm
* Total height : 920 mm
* Distance between axis : 1,290 mm
* Weight : 110 kgf
* Engine type : EH type: Single cylinder OHV 4 cycle
* Entire aerodynamic volume displacement : 123 cc
* Installed capacity : 5.2 HP / 5,000 rpm
* Full speed : 75 km/h
* Fuel economy : 70 km/L
* Transmission : Advance 4 step rotary
* Tire : (Front) 2.50x19-2 / (Rear) 2.75x19-4
* Starting system : Kick