LOT 520

1930 BSA 493cc Model S30 Sloper Registration no. VK 1992 Frame no. XH 9915 Engine no. Y10 1190 (see text)

Sold for £4,025 inc. premiumLot to be sold without reserve

Lot 520

1930 BSA 493cc Model S30 Sloper
Registration no. VK 1992 Frame no. XH 9915 Engine no. Y10 1190 (see text)

The Spring Sale - The International Classic MotorCycle Show|23 April 2022, 10:00 BST|Stafford, Staffordshire County Showground

1930 BSA 493cc Model S30 Sloper
Registration no. VK 1992
Frame no. XH 9915
Engine no. Y10 1190 (see text)

Introduced for the 1927 season, the influential Sloper started a trend which saw many of BSA's competitors adopt inclined motors. The Sloper featured a trend-setting saddle tank that afforded a low seating position, and for 1930 gained chromium-plated brightwork and a new frame with forged steel spine. Models with the 493cc overhead-valve engine came with twin-port cylinder heads. For 1930 the Birmingham firm offered no fewer than 18 models, six of which had inclined engines. The Sloper range remained essentially Vintage in character until its demise in 1935, by which time the line-up had shrunk to just two models: one overhead-valve, the other sidevalve, both of 595cc.

Originally displacing 557cc, this 1930 Sloper has been fitted with the 493cc engine from a 1931 De Luxe model. Owned by the vendor's family for between 30 and 50 years, the BSA has been on display in a private museum and has not run for at least 20 years. Apparently, first owner Jack Atkinson used the BSA to deliver newspapers around Garrigill in Cumbria, carrying his dog on the rear mudguard. 'VK 1992' appears to have stayed in the local area, as the attached 1955-expired tax disc was issued in Cumberland. Incomplete, the machine is offered in need of total restoration and sold strictly as viewed (the engine turns over). Offered with an old-type V5C (recording a different engine number).
Offered without key

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