LOT 311
1923 Sparkbrook 2½hp 'The Spark' Registration no. BF 4020 Frame no. 10138 Engine no. C7770
Estimate: £4,500 - £5,500
Lot 311
1923 Sparkbrook 2½hp 'The Spark'
Registration no. BF 4020 Frame no. 10138 Engine no. C7770
Important Collectors' Motorcycles and Related Memorabilia|17 October 2010, 12:00 BST|Stafford, Staffordshire County Showground
1923 Sparkbrook 2½hp 'The Spark'
Registration no. BF 4020
Frame no. 10138
Engine no. C7770
Registration no. BF 4020
Frame no. 10138
Engine no. C7770
A short-lived marque, Sparkbrook commenced production in Coventry in 1912 with a range powered by v-twin engines of JAP manufacture, though after WWI only single-cylinder machines were made. Various two-stroke and four-stroke power units were specified, while Sparkbrook's lightweights - some of which were marketed under the 'Spark' brand name - all used the reliable Villiers two-stroke. Manufacture of Sparkbrook motorcycles ceased in 1925.
This Spark is powered by a 269cc Villiers engine and has single-speed, belt-drive transmission with the convenience of a crankshaft-mounted clutch. The machine was discovered in a cellar in east London in the late 1940s when a bombsite was being cleared, still in its original packaging and complete with the Leckie saddle label still on it today. Brand new, it had miraculously survived the destruction above and was acquired by the previous owner soon after discovery. Displayed at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu between 1963 and 1981, the totally original machine had neither been registered nor used on the road when it was purchased by the current owner at Bonhams' sale of the Geeson Brothers Museum Collection in March 2003 (Other Properties: Lot 242). Since acquisition the fuel tank has been treated and repainted in the original Forest Green livery, and the machine registered for the road after VMCC verification. This rare and interesting early Vintage lightweight is offered with MoT to September 2011 and Swansea V5C document.
This Spark is powered by a 269cc Villiers engine and has single-speed, belt-drive transmission with the convenience of a crankshaft-mounted clutch. The machine was discovered in a cellar in east London in the late 1940s when a bombsite was being cleared, still in its original packaging and complete with the Leckie saddle label still on it today. Brand new, it had miraculously survived the destruction above and was acquired by the previous owner soon after discovery. Displayed at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu between 1963 and 1981, the totally original machine had neither been registered nor used on the road when it was purchased by the current owner at Bonhams' sale of the Geeson Brothers Museum Collection in March 2003 (Other Properties: Lot 242). Since acquisition the fuel tank has been treated and repainted in the original Forest Green livery, and the machine registered for the road after VMCC verification. This rare and interesting early Vintage lightweight is offered with MoT to September 2011 and Swansea V5C document.
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