Description
This is Lot 258 in the Bonhams Spring Stafford Sale on April 20 & 21, please see the Bonhams website for full details.
In post-war years, Manchester-based Dot concentrated on the production of (mainly) Villiers-engined lightweights, becoming a major force in the trials and scrambles fields. The Dot was the most successful lightweight scrambler from the late 1940s to the 1960s when Greeves took over, often having the beating of larger-engined and better-funded rivals on numerous occasions. Dot also offered a trials model, although major successes in that discipline would not be achieved until 1958 and the return from National Service of star rider Eric Adcock, who would go on to win over 750 awards for the Mancunian manufacturer.
This Dot's supplying dealer's plaque shows that it was sold new by Beamish (Motors) Ltd of Portslade, Sussex. Apparently an older restoration, the machine is offered for recommissioning or further restoration (the engine turns over) and thus is sold strictly as viewed. It comes with an old-style green logbook for the registration 'GDO 762'; however, that registration is not listed in the DVLA/ HPI database; hence the machine is offered unregistered. It should also be noted that the logbook records a different engine number. Additional documentation consists of bills for parts dating from the 1970s, and three editions of the Dot Owners Club newsletter.
