Lot details
Registration No: TSU 757
Frame No: 9045/TA
Engine No: 625/B/4125
cc: 197
MOT Expiry Date: None

Bert Greeves established the Invacar company to manufacture powered invalid carriages, before diversifying into motorcycle production from 1951. The company's products, built at Thundersley in Essex, always displayed innovative design features, including the use of a cast aluminium front section for the frame and from the outset were thoroughly developed before going on sale to the public. At the heart of this policy was an active competition programme with the early prototypes being used in scrambles and which would later see Greeves motorcycles competing in trials, road racing and ISDT events in addition to scrambles.
The 20TA trials model was introduced for the 1958 season, being given the name "Scottish" in celebration of Jack Simpson's win in the 200cc class of the 1957 Scottish Six Days Trial, the first year that Greeves entered a works team. The new model, which benefited greatly from Brian Stonebridge's development efforts, employed the 20SA scrambles frame equipped with revised footrests and a sprung saddle and housed a Villiers 9E engine fitted with a wide ratio gearbox, a longer inlet tract for the Villiers S25 carburettor and a high level exhaust system with a modified Villiers silencer.
This restored example is described as being in good condition in all respects and is offered with a Swansea V5C.