Ca 1904 Phoenix “Trimo” Forecar 3½hp 433 cc Minerva side valve frame & engine # 10690
Built from the early 1900s at the Phoenix Motor Cycle Works in
Holloway Road, North London, and powered by the ubiquitous Minerva
‘clip-on’ engine, J van Hooydonk’s motorcycle was widely reported in the
motorcyclin..
Original frame set with traces of the old black enamel paint. 22.5” (57cm) frame with 28” original wooden clincher rims. The wheels with been recently rebuilt with black enamel spokes with nickel plated nipples. Peugeot ‘Lion chainsets with a single speed freewheel. Wide swooping drop steel handlebars with Bowden type clamp on calliper brakes. Qui..
Now reduced and selling to make way for a Vintage car. A good project to build an early Veteran / pioneer motorcycle and assembled here to give a representation of the parts which are in included. The make of the frame is unknown; but there is a period head badge with the bike. This being: Cycles, Automobiles, Motocyclettes - Albert Pigna..
c.1898 Columbia Shaft Drive Bicycle. A very original machine and very useable. Original black enamel paintwork with old nickel plated fittings, wood rims with sympathetically newly built wheels with nickel plated hubs and spokes. Plunger brake to the front tyre, original mudguards, cushion leather saddle and grips. Columbia pedals. Period lamp...
A rare solid tyre safety bicycle for a child dating from the 1880's. Quite a few adult machines have survived, but children's machines are very rare to come across. Partly because, a bicycle in the 1880's was a luxury purchase for the wealthy and a child would have been very fortunate to have had a bicycle bought of their own. The bike has been sym..
George Singer started as a bicycle manufacturer in 1874 in Coventry.
In 1899 Edwin Perks and Frank Birch unveiled their “Motor-Wheel” design and this was taken up by Singer the following year in the form of a motorized tricycle and bicycle along with the services of Perks & Birch.
The Motor- Wheel consisted of an aluminium alloy wheel contai..
On offer is this beautiful Belgian 400cc Antoine motorcycle made in 1903. One of only three motorcycles know. One four cilinder is on display in a French museum, one single cilinder in a Brussels car museum and then there is this one. No others are known. The Antoine engines were exported to England and fitted in Ormonde frames also. This Antoine..
"The K3 Magnette must rank in the history books as the most famous and successful of all the record breaking MGs. With only 33 examples produced durin..