Lot details Registration No: UKW 881 Frame No: F45/12477 Engine No: 606B15491 cc: 98 MOT Expiry Date: None
Although there were Excelsior motorcycles made in Chicago from 1907, in the UK, the Bayliss Thomas brand of Excelsior will be more familiar with H&H clients. Like so many British motorcycle firms, they started off producing bicycles and, later, having added Minerva engines to motorise them, became motorcycle manufacturers.
'Excelsior - The World's Leading Lightweight' proclaimed the Birmingham bike maker's 1955 advertising which reflected the marque's concentration on catering for the commuter market postwar. It was during WW2 that Excelsior built their famous Welbike, a folding machine powered by a 98cc motor which could be dropped by parachute onto the battlefield.
The only thing that this Consort F65 has in common with its wartime predecessor is a 98cc 2-stroke engine. The 1958-built bike was in receipt of a claimed to have been sympathetic restoration some five year ago by previous owners Waters Upton, who then employed it as a display piece in the front room! Turned out in model and period-correct Excelsior Green, it would make a lovely lightweight show bike which comes with original registration.
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