Description
H&H Classic Auction @ National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands
30th Oct, 2024 11:00
1954 Velocette MSS
Excellent quality restoration
Estimate
£3, 500 - £4, 500
Registration No: 252 UYO
Frame No: RS4090
MOT: Exempt
Authentically restored back to original condition
Has been in a private collection for the last 10 years
Supplied an owners Handbook and a current V5C
Velocettes were produced by Veloce Ltd in Hall Green, Birmingham between 1904 and 1971. Velocette was a family-owned firm selling almost as many hand-built motorcycles during its lifetime as the mass-produced machines from the likes of Triumph and Norton. Veloce, while small, was a great technical innovator and many of its patented designs are commonplace on motorcycles today including the positive-stop foot shift and swinging arm rear suspension with hydraulic dampers. Renowned for the quality of its products, the company was "always in the picture" in international motorcycle racing from the mid 1920s through to the 1950s, culminating in two 350cc World Championship titles and its legendary, and still-unbeaten, record of averaging over 100mph for 24 hours on a 500cc single cylinder machine. The MSS was the predecessor to the Venom and Thruxton models.
This excellently restored Velo MSS has been part of the Brian Ditchfield collection, a retired engineer and lifelong motorcycle enthusiast who has in the past run a very successful Sidecar Grand Prix team, finishing second in the World Championship in 2002. The bike was purchased from Andy Tienan in 2015 and has been restored to a very high standard, returning it to the condition it would have left the factory in. Nothing has been overpolished or chromed where it shouldn't be creating a very authentic example of this 1950s classic. It comes supplied with an original Owners Manual that carefully spells out the correct starting procedure together with a book about Velocette, a dating letter and a current V5C.
