Description
H&H Classic Auction @ National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
3rd July, 2024 13:00
1959 Excelsior Consort
No Reserve
Registration No: 490 YUG
Frame No: 5C96263
MOT: Exempt
Part of a private collection
Restored to a good standard
Current V5c on file
Although there were Excelsior named motorcycles made in Chicago, USA, from 1907, in the UK, the Bayliss Thomas and Company run Excelsior name will be more familiar. Like so many motorcycle makers, they started off producing bicycles and, later, having added Minerva engines to motorise them - they had become motorcycle manufacturers. R. Walker was the new owner from 1919 and employed JAP engines, some of which transported racing customers round Brooklands and the Isle of Man. From the 1930s, Villiers also supplied Excelsior with engines for the 147, 196 and 247 models, and JAP powered their 245 and 300, and pre-WW2, the marque produced really racey machinery like the Excelsior Manxman with its 349cc single cylinder four-stroke engine. Following the war, though, and the firm concentrated on making Villiers two-stroke engined Consort, Talisman and Roadmaster lightweight motorcycles.
On offer is a 1959 Excelsior Consort that has been restored to a good standard in the past and has now mellowed well. It has formed part of a private collection since ownership. It has had just two previous owners prior to being purchased. It will require some light recommissioning before use. It is offered complete with a current V5C and photocopies of handbooks. To be sold without a reserve.
