Registration No: PP 3119
Frame No: 63 (Not visible)
MOT: Exempt

• Part of a collection of motorcycles
• Stored in the attic of a barn
• Purchased from Murray's Museum many years ago
• Old RF60 and V5C on file

In 1919 F.E. Baker Ltd entered into an arrangement with William Beardmore and Company, a large Scottish engineering and shipbuilding firm based in Glasgow with the result that the latter produced motorcycles under the name 'Beardmore Precision' from 1921-1924. The new venture’s first motorcycle was a 350 cc two-stroke featuring leaf-spring suspension front and rear and was followed by a range of 250cc to 600cc motorcycles. The range expanded to include side-valve models of various capacities plus a Barr & Stroud sleeve valve engined '350'. Although production models gained an enviable reputation in the trials events of their day, the racers faired disastrously at the 1924 TT, the debacle prompting Beardmore to close the ailing firm. A leaf-sprung front suspension, an external contracting band front brake, and a fuel-tank integral to the frame structure were among its unusual features.

Previously the property of Murray’s Motorcycle Museum on the Isle of Man, this 1925 330cc Sports Model joined the late Fred Evans collection many years ago. Stored alongside other members of his collection in a barn attic, it has not been started or ridden for quite some time and so will require recommissioning prior to use. There is a current V5C and the original RF60 logbook with this lot.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217