Description
H&H Classic Auction @ National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
30th Oct, 2024 11:00
1951 Sunbeam S8
Estimate
£3, 000 - £4, 000
Registration No: FVY 853
Frame No: S84664
Engine No: S8756
CC: 500
MOT: Exempt
Presented as a running machine from the current engineer-owner in need of small improvements
Supplied with continuation green logbook with ownership displayed to 1970
Current ownership since 2016 who has recently given up riding due to an illness
The Sunbeam S7 and S8 are British motorcycles designed by Erling Poppe with styling loosely based on the BMW R75 designs that were acquired as war reparations by BSA (full rights to the Sunbeam brand had been acquired from AMC in 1943). The S8, without altering the basic design, incorporated slimmer wheels of then standard sports machine sizes and had narrower mudguards to suit. The lighter weight and improved handling revealed what a good machine the S8 really was and sales quickly improved.
More information to follow.
