LOT 571

1929 Scott 596cc Super Squirrel Registration no. VM 7904 Frame no. 2754 Engine no. Y2031A

Sold for £12,650 inc. premium

Lot 571

1929 Scott 596cc Super Squirrel
Registration no. VM 7904 Frame no. 2754 Engine no. Y2031A

The Winter Sale - including The National Motorcycle Museum Reserve Collection - Bicester Heritage|12 December 2020, 10:00 GMT|Bicester, Bicester Heritage

1929 Scott 596cc Super Squirrel
Registration no. VM 7904
Frame no. 2754
Engine no. Y2031A

Alfred Angas Scott's experiments with two-stroke motorcycles began in the closing years of the 19th Century, leading to the grant of a patent in 1904. Scott's original design for a vertical twin two-stroke engine featured a central flywheel with 180-degree overhung cranks and slim connecting rods that would characterise his products from then onwards. Although recognisably derived from his earliest designs, the Scott motorcycle of the 1920s gained steadily in both complexity and weight. A three-speed countershaft gearbox had been introduced for 1923 and, as a result of the racing programme, there was a new duplex fame and bigger brakes for 1927. For the traditionalists, the old-style, lightweight, two-speed model continued, remaining in production into the early 1930s.

The current owner acquired this two-speed Super Squirrel on 1st December 2009. The Scott had a sidecar attached when purchased, but that had to go following complaints from its usual passenger, the owner's wife! Sadly, due to the owner's failing health, the Scott has not been ridden or started for around two years. Described by him as fast and impressive to ride, the machine is offered with an old-style continuation logbook (issued 1953); assorted correspondence; an old-style V5C document; and a quantity of MoTs dating back to 1992, the most recent of which expired in 2008.

Footnotes

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