Registration No: Un-Reg
Frame No: 57131
Engine No: S4337
CC: 500
MOT: N/A

• Offered from a deceased estate and loft stored for many years
• Dissassembled to facilitate its extraction and only loosely put back together for display / sale purposes
• Offered together with a bronze radial four valve head and spare crankcases
• Unfortunately no paperwork was found so the bike will need re-registering

The Rudge name was made famous by Graham Walker's victory in the 1928 Ulster Grand Prix, one of the first times a road race had been won at an average speed of more than 80mph, setting a lap record of over 82mph. In the same year Ernie Nott set a new two-hour world record at over 100 mph and went on to set further records in 1929. The bike, especially the bronze head Ulster replica became the mainstay of road racing in the day with even Enzo Ferarri running a race team in Italy using Rudges. This racing heritage gave the Rudge name a lot of credibility but unfortunately works supported racing and the supply of race machinery ended around the mid-thirties with the death of Rudge- Whitworth principal and driving force J.V. PUGH. A subsequent diversification into autocycles and other badly managed ventures caused the demise of the Rudge concern in 1940.

This Rudge has been stored in a loft for a number of years and actually had to be taken apart to get it down, now loosely reassembled it will need a complete check over and rebuild before use. The cosmetic condition is good and it appears to be mostly complete but some items may have gone missing over the years. Internet research suggests the frame number 57131 would have been issued in 1936 and the engine number S4337 in 1937. Unfortunately. no paperwork has been found so the bike will need re-registering. All the variants of the 500 seem to have used the same frame but the 'S4337' engine number suggests this is a 'Special' model and it comes together with a spare radial four valve bronze cylinder head and a spare set of crankcases together with a few service books.