Description
For sale by auction on the 23rd March 2024
1947 Royal Enfield "Flying Flea" 125cc. Registration number 324 YUM (non transferrable). Frame number 21089. Engine number 21089.
Sold with the V5C, R. E. dating certificate, various receipts for parts and other literature.
The original design was by DKW in 1935, a 98cc 2-stroke known as the DKW RT100, which went on to become the hugely successful and much copied RT125. In early 1938 the Dutch company took the designs to RE who increased the engine capacity to 125cc and it was used for airborne drops during WWII. Post war it was produced for the civilian market but remained very similar until 1950 when the pressed steel forks with rubber bands were replaced by telescopics.
YUM is a matching numbers machine that benefits from a R. E. Owners Club dating certificate stating it was dispatched from the factory to Grays & Rowsell of Shoreham on Sea on the 24th November 1947. There is an email on file stating the engine was rebuilt prior to 2012 when our vendors father bought it. He had it fully restored, as shown by photographs on file, it has since stayed in his collection and there are old MOT's on file from 2012 to 2017, zero miles to 20 miles, today the odometer shows 21 miles.
Sold with the V5C, old MOT history, various photographs and literature.
