BMW 1938 R51 Sport 494 cc OHV horizontally opposed twin frame # 511303 engine # 505591 In the late thirties BMWs are sold in considerable numbers, in spite of their high prices; in the UK a 1938 BMW R51 costs £123, while a Triumph Speed Twin can be had for less than £77. The make has built up an excellent reputation for quality and luxury: from 1938 on all BMW twins have both front and rear springing, a feature which is at the time very uncommon for most other makes. During 1937 the firm gets ex ...
Indian 1947 Model 347 “Chief” 1206cc side valve V-twin Frame # 3479505 Engine # CDG 4505 B In 1940, some 39 years after the company’s founding, Indian went all-in on the skirted fender design, outfitting Scouts, Chief and Fours with the new tinware. After World War 2 only the Chief made a return – in 1947 they did make 11,849 of them – supposedly a stop-gap measure until lighter, more advanced models came online. But a series of financial and engineering missteps doomed the company and Chiefs we ...
Saroléa 1937 589 cc Side Valve “37T-6 ‘’Eclaireur” Military model frame & engine # 105692 From 1930 on the Saroléa type numbering system changed in that the type number started with the model year, so the 37T was model T of 1937. This was a side valve model, available in 494 cc capacity as the T-5 and in 589 cc as T-6. Saroléa had introduced the sloping engine for the 1931 model range. At that time many factories designed machines with forward leaning engines for several reasons: from a technica ...
Velocette 1959 “Venom” 499cc OHV frame # RS12636 engine # VM3139 The firm of Veloce Ltd. is formed in 1905 by Johann Goodman. It’s a family business that concentrates on sound motorcycle engineering principles. Their first machines are lightweight four strokes; after that a line of top-class 250 cc two strokes is brought out. In 1924/25 Percy Goodman designs the 350 cc overhead camshaft model K, a machine destined to win many TTs and other races, starting with the 1926 Junior TT that is won by A ...
James 1915 “ No. 6” 4¼ HP 598cc side valve combination frame # D6834 engine # 4727 The James Cycle Company became a public company in 1897. Then Harold James, the founder of the company, quietly retired from the scene. When the first James motorcycle was marketed in 1902, Harold had already passed away. The veteran James models were merely strengthened bicycles with Derby and Minerva engines. Later on FN engines were used. The firm prospered and already in 1912 countershaft gears were offered on ...
Peugeot 1903 2HP Type “C” 239 cc aiv frame # 1338 engine # 498 Although a prototype De Dion-engined Peugeot bicycle was displayed at the Paris Salon in 1898, the first motorized cycles to leave the factory were actually tricycles with De Dion & Bouton engines. The popularity of the tricycle was unchallenged at first, but by 1902 the motorized bicycle started to take the lead: at the Paris Salon in December 1901 81 motorized cycles were exhibited, of which there were only 21 tricycles or quadricy ...
BMW 1992 K1 987 cc longitudinal DOHC four cylinder frame & engine # 6377449 Through the need to meet proposed European Union legislation on emissions regulation, BMW had started to develop an alternative technology to its traditional flat-twin engines with the introduction of the 1,000 cc BMW K100 from 1983 to 1992. The team developed a design prototype based on a liquid-cooled Peugeot car engine. In the base design of the K100, the engine was laid on its side in line with the motorcycle frame, ...
Rudge Multi 1920 499cc IOE single Frame# 769645 engine # 18785 With the introduction of the Multi Gear in 1912 Rudge was far ahead of the competition. They won the 1914 TT races with this system and Rudges were subsequently barred from certain speed events because of their “unfair head start”. The factory turned this to their advantage by using the “ barred” logo in a clever company advertising campaign. The Multi Gear system is based on the possibility to vary the diameters of both front and re ...
BMW 1948 R24 247 cc OHV single frame & engine # 200953 Built to the same exemplary standards as the Bavarian company’s famous flat-twins, the single-cylinder BMW first appears in 1925 as the 247 cc R39. Throughout the twenties and thirties singles are brought out in various capacities, ranging from 198 cc to 398 cc. For a number of years after the war Allied restrictions prevent German companies to produce machines of greater capacity than 250cc, so BMW’s first postwar model is a 247 cc single, ...
Böhmerland 1927 “Langtouren“ 599 cc ohv single combination frame & engine # 484 Albin Hugo Liebisch was born in 1888 in the Bohemian town of Rumburk and died in Passau in 1965. During his life he created a very unusual type of motorcycle, the Čechie-Böhmerland. Liebisch was mechanically-minded and after having had a number of technical jobs he opened an engineering and repair workshop in the Bohemian village of Krásná Lípa, close to Rumburk and near the German border. In this workshop he regular ...
The Hoffecker Co Boston speedometer Overall diameter ca 11 cm
The New Haven Clock Diameter glass ca 7 cm For dash mounting on a brass era car and quick detachable with key
Stewart speedometer. Diameter ca 10 cm.
Face diameter 9 cm
Face diameter 8 cm
Face diameter 9 cm
New reproduction saddle , made to order..( no hardware ) Several stamps available FN , Brooks B100 , Ideal , Brown , Persons etc . Lenght ca 34 cm 13″. Width ca 25 cm 10″.
Rear stand FN 4 cylinder 1910-1919 reproduction