1952 Panther Model 100

Registration No: ESJ 855
Frame No: 4660
MOT: Exempt

• A rare example of a long-lived but frequently evolving model
• Wearing a very attractive, patinated older restoration
• Ideal for use with a classic sidecar

Produced by Phelon & Moore in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, Panther specialised in big, torquey single-cylinder machines which excelled at pulling sidecars and covering long distances. The impressively long-lived Model 100 ran from 1932 to 1963, with many improvements over the course of its life, but always powered by the same ohv 598cc single. The first Panther was launched in 1924, but the Phelon & Moore name was not dropped until somewhere around 1929. Famously, it was a Model 100 which transported Misses Florence Blenkiron and Teresa Wallach from London to Cape Town and across the Sahara in 1935. By the early 1950s, the Model 100 was employing a Burman foot-change four-speed gearbox and Dowty Oleomatic forks, and 1952 was the first year for the Lucas Magdyno.

An extremely good-looking bike, this 1952 Model 100 exhibits an older restoration which has now acquired a most attractive patina. Having been on static display in a private collection since 2019, it will require some checks before it has been used on the road. It has, however, been run in 2025 and has the potential to be a very dependable classic bike which is sure to turn heads at rallies. It is sold with the current V5C.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217