26th Mar, 2025 12:00
National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
1912 Edwell 3½hp
The sole known example
1912 Edwell 3½hp
The sole known example
Sold for £8,740
(including buyers premium)
Registration No: AO 1591
Frame No: 525
MOT: Exempt
- Only known example
- Made in Bromyard, Worcestershire
- Offered from a deceased estate
Among the most obscure motorcycle manufacturers of the pre-WW1 era, it is conjectured that just ten ‘Edwell’ machines were built by Edmund Williams Auto Engineers of Bromyard around 1911 or 1912. Reputedly sourced from T.D. Cross & Sons of Birmingham, the engines used were thought to be 499cc 3½hp sidevalve units (albeit their crankcases carried the legend ‘The Perfect’). Based around a rigid frame, the Edwell was similarly conventional in its choice of belt drive, pedal starting, Saxon forks and an enclosed ZE1 Bosch magneto.
Believed to be the sole surviving example, ‘AO 1591’ was featured in the October 1998 issue of The Motorcycle magazine. Self-evidently the subject of an extensive past restoration, it remains in good cosmetic order and has been on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in recent years. A golden opportunity for collectors of the obscure.
For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217
Auction: National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands, 26th Mar, 2025
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