Beschreibung
For sale by auction on the 28th October 2023
c. 1940-44 Royal Enfield Flying Flea. Registration number not registered. Frame number not found. Engine number V1758.
There is no paperwork with this machine.
Simple, tough and resilient, the Royal Enfield Flying Flea, or WD/ RE to give it its official title, was deployed as a front line combat machine during the latter stages of the Second World War. An invaluable asset to the elite soldiers of the newly-formed Parachute Regiment, it was parachuted behind enemy lines, carried in assault gliders or ferried to the beaches of Normandy in amphibious landing craft.
Ironically, the Flea was originally a German design. Launched in 1934, the DKW RT100 was one of the most reliable and best selling motorcycles of the 1930s.
There is no paperwork with this machine.
