Sold for £1,380
(including buyers premium)
Registration No: AJT 426A
Frame No: 70490
MOT: Exempt
1897 Formerly known as Hotchkiss, Mayo and Meek at Hill Cross Works, Coventry; when Hotchkiss died and John Meek left the company, it came under the control of Edmund Mayo and Bernard Rotherham and moved to Lincoln Street, named as the Coventry Eagle Cycle Co. The company produced motorcycles between 1899 and 1940. 1928 The policy of four-stroke -only came to an end with the arrival of twin-port, super-sport Villiers engines in 147cc, 172cc and 172cc twin-port, super-sports forms appeared in a set of pressed steel cycle parts. The company also began to use forks from pressed sheet steel. Although this was common in Europe, Coventry Eagle were the first major British company to use this method - a move that proved to be very successful for the following decade.
On offer is a 1933 Coventry Silent Superb, purchased by the late vendor 20 or more years ago and placed in the attic of a barn as part of The Fred Evans Collection. It was part of a collection of mainly pre-war motorcycles he was gathering. It has not been used for some time and will need to be recommissioned before use. There is an old style V5 Registration Document with the Coventry Eagle.
For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217
Auction: National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands, 30th Oct, 2024
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