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GEORGE BROUGH The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand Sport" , 1925
Registration number HP2122. Frame number 801A. Engine number KTOR 37658. Engineered by Harold Karslake, Brough Superior Works, Nottingham, UK. 1000cc overhead valve 50-degree V-twin engine manufactured by J.A. Prestwich, Tottenham, UK. Together with George Brough’s International Travelling Pass issued for the present lot by the Royal Automobile Club, London, June 8, 1925, and with a letter of certification from Mike Leatherdale, Machine Registrar, Brough Superior Club, UK.
LITERATURE Ronald H. Clark, Brough Superior: The Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, Yeovil, 1964, illustrated p. 38; Mick Duckworth, “Superiority Complex,” The Classic Motorcycle, December 1998, illustrated pp. 50–52 and p. 54 The present lot is the first SS100 “Alpine Grand Sport” and was George Brough’s own personal bike, raced by him throughout 1925 and early 1926, as confirmed by Mike Leatherdale, Machine Registrar for the Brough Superior Club, UK. Please see the Important Notice for Prospective Buyers of Vintage Vehicles which appears at the back of this catalogue.
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GEORGE BROUGH The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand Sport" , 1925
Registration number HP2122. Frame number 801A. Engine number KTOR 37658. Engineered by Harold Karslake, Brough Superior Works, Nottingham, UK. 1000cc overhead valve 50-degree V-twin engine manufactured by J.A. Prestwich, Tottenham, UK. Together with George Brough’s International Travelling Pass issued for the present lot by the Royal Automobile Club, London, June 8, 1925, and with a letter of certification from Mike Leatherdale, Machine Registrar, Brough Superior Club, UK.
ESTIMATE $600,000-700,000
PROVENANCE George Brough, Nottingham, UK; Prince R. Chagla, India; Major S. Balakrishnan, India COMPETITION London to Edinburgh Trial, May 1925 (George Brough); Austrian Alpine Trial, July 1925 (George Brough); London to Exeter Trial, December 1925 (J.P. “Neon” Castley); Victory Cup Trial, March 1926 (George Brough)LITERATURE Ronald H. Clark, Brough Superior: The Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, Yeovil, 1964, illustrated p. 38; Mick Duckworth, “Superiority Complex,” The Classic Motorcycle, December 1998, illustrated pp. 50–52 and p. 54 The present lot is the first SS100 “Alpine Grand Sport” and was George Brough’s own personal bike, raced by him throughout 1925 and early 1926, as confirmed by Mike Leatherdale, Machine Registrar for the Brough Superior Club, UK. Please see the Important Notice for Prospective Buyers of Vintage Vehicles which appears at the back of this catalogue.
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“It is very satisfying to know that you are astride a machine which, if you wish, can leave behind anything on wheels,” vowed the 1925 Brough Superior sales brochure—no empty boast. The previous year, engine tuner Bert Le Vack set the British road record at Clipstone...
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GEORGE BROUGH
The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand ..., 1925
Estimate $600,000-700,000
The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand ..., 1925
Estimate $600,000-700,000
GEORGE BROUGH
The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand ..., 1925
Estimate $600,000-700,000
The Prototype Brough Superior SS100 "Alpine Grand ..., 1925
Estimate $600,000-700,000
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