LOT 708
Offered from the National Motorcycle Museum Collection 1925 Brough Superior 750cc Mark II Registration no. OM 6274 Frame no. H782 Engine no. 2C14 55050
Sold for £92,000 inc. premium
Lot 708
Offered from the National Motorcycle Museum Collection, 1925 Brough Superior 750cc Mark IIRegistration no. OM 6274 Frame no. H782 Engine no. 2C14 55050
Offered from the National Motorcycle Museum Collection
1925 Brough Superior 750cc Mark II
Registration no. OM 6274
Frame no. H782
Engine no. 2C14 55050
1925 Brough Superior 750cc Mark II
Registration no. OM 6274
Frame no. H782
Engine no. 2C14 55050
• One of the last of its type ever made
• The youngest known survivor
• Original logbook
Quite what George Brough's father - Nottingham-based motorcycle manufacturer William Edward Brough - thought when his younger son cheekily added the word 'Superior' to the family name when founding his rival marque can only be imagined, but it's thanks to this act of youthful bravado that we have one of the greatest and most evocative names in motorcycling. W E Brough's machines had been innovative and well-engineered, and his sons continued the family tradition but with an added ingredient: style. The very first Brough Superior of 1919 featured a saddle tank - an innovation not adopted by the rest of the British industry until 1928 - and the latter's broad-nosed, wedge-profiled outline would be a hallmark of the Nottingham-built machines from then on. Hand built in small numbers, the Brough Superior was - inevitably - expensive, but as its maker acknowledged, he "never intended to produce (the) design as cheaply as possible".
After the first handful of machines had been constructed in temporary premises towards the end of 1919, production shifted to what would be Brough's permanent home in Haydn Road, Nottingham where production proper commenced in 1920. J A Prestwich of London and Motosacoche of Geneva supplied v-twin engines for the Mark I and Mark II Brough Superiors respectively, though within a few years all models would be JAP-powered. The early Mark I came with JAP's famous overhead-valve '90 bore' 986cc 50-degree v-twin engine as standard, though there was an alternative longer-stroke sidevalve version available for sidecar work, which would later become the standard offering. Gearboxes were sourced from Sturmey-Archer and (initially) forks from Montgomery, while frame and accessory manufacture was contracted out to specialists in the British motorcycle industry's Midlands heartland. With the arrival of the sporting SS80 in 1922, the Mark II took on more of a touring role and was last catalogued in 1924.
One of the last of its type ever made, and the youngest known survivor, this Brough Superior Mark II was registered in the Birmingham area on 26th May 1925. Representing a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the dedicated Brough collector, this Mark II comes with a V5C document and its original logbook recording a change of engine (from '45889' to the current '55050') and listing only two owners, both in the Birmingham area, up to 1937. The machine's mechanical condition is not known; accordingly, prospective purchasers must satisfy themselves with regard to its condition, completeness, correctness, or otherwise prior to bidding.
• The youngest known survivor
• Original logbook
Quite what George Brough's father - Nottingham-based motorcycle manufacturer William Edward Brough - thought when his younger son cheekily added the word 'Superior' to the family name when founding his rival marque can only be imagined, but it's thanks to this act of youthful bravado that we have one of the greatest and most evocative names in motorcycling. W E Brough's machines had been innovative and well-engineered, and his sons continued the family tradition but with an added ingredient: style. The very first Brough Superior of 1919 featured a saddle tank - an innovation not adopted by the rest of the British industry until 1928 - and the latter's broad-nosed, wedge-profiled outline would be a hallmark of the Nottingham-built machines from then on. Hand built in small numbers, the Brough Superior was - inevitably - expensive, but as its maker acknowledged, he "never intended to produce (the) design as cheaply as possible".
After the first handful of machines had been constructed in temporary premises towards the end of 1919, production shifted to what would be Brough's permanent home in Haydn Road, Nottingham where production proper commenced in 1920. J A Prestwich of London and Motosacoche of Geneva supplied v-twin engines for the Mark I and Mark II Brough Superiors respectively, though within a few years all models would be JAP-powered. The early Mark I came with JAP's famous overhead-valve '90 bore' 986cc 50-degree v-twin engine as standard, though there was an alternative longer-stroke sidevalve version available for sidecar work, which would later become the standard offering. Gearboxes were sourced from Sturmey-Archer and (initially) forks from Montgomery, while frame and accessory manufacture was contracted out to specialists in the British motorcycle industry's Midlands heartland. With the arrival of the sporting SS80 in 1922, the Mark II took on more of a touring role and was last catalogued in 1924.
One of the last of its type ever made, and the youngest known survivor, this Brough Superior Mark II was registered in the Birmingham area on 26th May 1925. Representing a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the dedicated Brough collector, this Mark II comes with a V5C document and its original logbook recording a change of engine (from '45889' to the current '55050') and listing only two owners, both in the Birmingham area, up to 1937. The machine's mechanical condition is not known; accordingly, prospective purchasers must satisfy themselves with regard to its condition, completeness, correctness, or otherwise prior to bidding.
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