Lot details Registration No: 211 WMK Frame No: FA7 14674 Engine No: A10 6168 cc: 646 MOT Expiry Date: None
For most of its existence, the Birmingham Small Arms Company was the UK's largest motorcycle manufacturer. Indeed, in the immediate postwar years, when the once mighty and now sadly long gone Small Heath works turned out over 75,000 machines in a good year, BSA was actually the world's number one bike maker.
The Golden Flash was made from 1950 until 1964. Throughout the 1950s, various `sports' versions such as the Super Flash, Road Rocket and Super Rocket were also offered. The appeal for BSA customers was that the model offered sound and quality engineering with the engine and transmission earning a well deserved reputation for producing good and dependable performance in relative silence. Hence the Golden Flash became a hugely popular choice for the biker with a family who wanted a trusty machine to power a sidecar for the weekend.
This Golden Flash A10 650cc twin - capable of a 95mph top speed and costing £253 in 1959 when built - has been fitted with a Busmar sidecar, a fully enclosed family model. Typifying basic family transport of the period, the combination has been on display at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu since 1986. The metallic beige and black paintwork is currently described as being generally good, a dent in the petrol tank said to be of pre-1986 vintage, whilst the sidecar, claimed still to be original, is reportedly tidy.
PLEASE NOTE: There is no V5 with this motorcycle.
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