Description
For sale by Auction on Saturday 7th July 2018, at Sledmere House, Sledmere, Driffield, YO25 3XG. Commencing at 12 noon.
Registration number RAT 902.
Frame number BM20S. 2743 (see text).
Engine number BM33. 901.
First introduced for 1948, the BSA M33 combined the B33's overhead-valve engine and the cycle parts of the M20 sidevalve. The B33 engine closely followed B31 lines, but with larger (85mm) bore and heavier flywheels. By the late 1940s, BSA's surviving sidevalves (the 500cc M20 and 600cc M21) retained the rigid frame of pre-war days and were marketed for sidecar use. The 'hybrid' M33 was intended to provide more power in that application, which it did with ease. Produced initially with rigid frame and girder front fork, the M33 switched to BSA's new telescopic fork in June 1948, while the plunger-suspended frame, optional from 1951, became standard on the M33 for 1956. A good, solid, all-round performer by the standards of its day, the M33 could top 60mph with sidecar attached, cruise comfortably all day at 50 mph-plus and return in excess of 50 mpg. Production ceased in August 1957.
First registered on the 25th June 1954 and sold by Jordan's of Hull, this M33 has the plunger frame and telescopic front fork, originally it was sold with a sidecar. In 1960 it was owned by an Arthur Barr of Hull, before a Mrs Wyllie sold it to our vendors father for £15. 00 on the 12th December 1974, with the sidecar attached. It was in use until 1998 when an MOT was issued with the mileage at 2, 168, today it is 2, 233.
Sold with a replacement R. F. 60, the V5C, the 1974 receipt and the 1997 MOT, it will require full restoration. Please note that the V5C lists the frame as BM205 when it should be BM20S.
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