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Charterhouse CHARTERHOUSE Auctioneers & Valuers Auction to be held at The Footman James Classic Vehicle Restoration Show Royal Bath & West Showground Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN Sunday 7th November 2016 at 12 noon Entry by catalogue only on the auction day Viewing Saturday 7th November 9.30 am – 4.00 pm And morning of sale from 9.30 am Live internet bidding can be accessed through our web site, or i-bidder.com Front cover illustration: Lot Sale Day Telephone Number General Enquires and Accounts 07908 303938 Please contact the Head Office at all other times A buyer’s premium of 10%, with a minimum buyer’s premium of £80, is payable on all lots Special Notices Please note Cheque payments are no longer accepted at our car sales Please see our terms and conditions about registration prior to sale, payment, and live internet bidding. Vehicles not collected by 2.30pm on the day following the auction will be removed to a compound at a cost of £70 + VAT per car, and £40 + VAT per motorcycle. Storage charges will then be levied at £10 per vehicle per day or part thereof. You are reminded of our terms and conditions of sale especially regarding insurance. CHARTERHOUSE Auctioneers Ltd The Long Street Salerooms Sherborne Dorset DT9 3BS Telephone 01935 812277 [email protected] www.charterhouse-auction.com 1 A 1953 AJS 16MS, battery, wiring loom, choke registration number MDG cable with the magneto and 772, frame number A3813, carburettor were cleaned to engine number obtain an MOT. Since then 53/16M/S20520, black. This the AJS has been in storage original AJS is in wonderful and will require some general oily rag condition. It was last fettling before taking to the on the road in 2011 when road once again. RF60, V5, recommissioned with a new V5C, MOT and tax exempt Sold for 1900 twin pistons in the single cylinder and features electric start. Having formed part of large collection of motorcycles this TWN has been in storage for the last two years. The vendor now informs us that the machine will require recommissioning 2 A 1962 Moto Guzzi Lodola, after storage. The TWN is 5 A 1981 Honda XL500S, registration number UXG offered for auction with a list frame number 118, red with bronze frame. of parts fitted and owner's PD01088BM203304, red. This rare 235cc sports manual. RF60, MOT and tax The XL500S was the last of machine has formed part of a exempt Sold for 1750 the big thumper twin shocks large collection of before the new Pro-Link motorcycles in recent times. suspension model was It has been in dry storage introduced for 1982. This has since it was last used in recently been imported from 2014, when the vendor the dry state of California and advises us that the machine is ripe for a sympathetic was running well. It is restoration. It is supplied with currently registered to run on HMRC duties paid paperwork a daylight MOT, with the last and American ownership certificate expired in 4 A 1959 NSU Prima 3 certificate September 2013, which had scooter, registration number no advisories. This rare 946 XUT, red. This charming Italian sports machine is scooter has formed part of a offered for auction with an private collection in recent instruction/maintenance times. It features electric start manual, various receipts, and and floor gear change. The general information. It is now scooter was last used in reluctantly for sale due to the 2014 and has been in dry vendor's ill health. V5C, MOT storage since. The vendor and tax exempt Sold for informs us at that time the 6 A pre WWII Brennabor 2100 machine was running well but moped, green. This rare now will require general German lightweight is in recommissioning. The Prima need of restoration. It would is offered for auction with an appear complete in all major original owner's manual and respects and represents a instruction book, plus a copy rewarding project for an of a maintenance manual enthusiast. No accompanying and an expired MOT (March paperwork 2013). This rare alternative to the contemporary Lambretta 3 A 1958 T.W.N. (Triumph or Vespa is now reluctantly Werke Nurnberg) Cornet, for sale due to the vendor's ill black. This rare German two health. V5C, no MOT stroke 198cc single has an unusual engine incorporating Included in the history file are receipts for parts and work carried out totalling over £3,000 (the restorers labour charges are not included), a copy of an original sales brochure, a BSA operating manual, instruction book, a number of pre-restoration 7 A 1960 Lambretta LI 150 8 A 1913 Douglas 2 ¾ hp images, a dating certificate Series II combination, Model P, registration number from 2012 which confirms registration number 788 AFJ, SL 9786, frame number this motorcycle has frame frame number 150LI 853422, 12963, engine number 7233, number KJB20-4849 and engine number 150LI silver and blue. This engine number KJB23-336. 853492, green. This rare charming pioneer run eligible Still with its original engine, combination was originally Douglas has been with the this motorcycle was supplied supplied by Emerys of Exeter same family for over forty on 2nd August 1939 and and was owned by the same years. The Douglas was dispatched to E Longman in family until 2010 when the restored by the vendor's Salisbury. It was ordered with vendor purchased it as a father after being discovered a hand change gearbox, a restoration project. It is in a chicken shed. Since downswept exhaust and believed the combination was restoration the motorcycle finished in matt silver with last on the road in the 1970s. has not been ridden and has maroon lining. This The vendor embarked on a resided in the vendor's sitting information is taken from the full nut and bolt restoration, room. After such a long BSA factory dispatch with the engine being rebuilt period of inactivity, the department records and the with a new crank shaft, main Douglas will now require re- dating certificate is signed by bearings, little ends and commissioning. This veteran Steve Folden, the librarian of piston and rings. The body motorcycle is offered with a the BSA owner's club. It will work has been restored and V5. Once recommissioned it need to be re-registered on resprayed in light green, the offers the next custodian an the DVLA database and a original seats were retrimmed entry into the Brighton Run new age related registration in green vinyl and the original and other veteran events. V5, number allocated sidecar frame was restored MOT and tax exempt Sold with a replacement chair. for 7500 Since completion the Lambretta has been used sparingly and has been in storage for the majority of the time. The combination is offered for auction with original handbook, a 10 A 2008 Harley-Davidson Watsonian sidecar brochure FXDL Low Rider, registration and receipts. RF60, V5C, no 9 A 1939 BSA B23 350SV number OY08 WCR, white. MOT, tax exempt See This well maintained Low illustration Note: Removal Standard, unregistered, silver. Purchased in Rider has covered a believed charge of £70+VAT applies 16,000 miles from new. The to this lot. Sold for 4200 Yorkshire as a barn find, an extensive five year Harley is said to be in good restoration then took place. order, with bags of polished chrome which shows off the (mileage 32,738), a run of covered a few shakedown massive 1584cc engine to MOTs from 1981, an original miles by the vendor. The great effect. With five former handbook and tax discs from octogenarian vendor has keepers and service history 1986. The last MOT expired taken the decision that his (service book with three in April 2015 and the riding days are over, and it is stamps), this Harley offers motorcycle has been in dry now time for a younger rider presence and style to the storage ever since. V5C, no to take up the challenge. The next owner. V5C, MOT to MOT See illustrations MV Agusta replica is offered April 2016 for auction with Winpep Dynojet evaluation program 11 A Solex moped for performance telemetry restoration. No sheets and a brief history of accompanying paperwork the build. V5C, MOT to April 2016 See illustrations 12 A 1984 Honda C90, 15 . registration number A72 EMY, frame number 14 A 1995 Honda Super Four C905193737, red. This MV Agusta 500 GP replica, 16 . Honda has had a recent registration number N93 engine rebuild with a new NWS, red and silver. The MV 17 . piston and rings and retained Agusta 500 GP replica was the standard barrel. The last constructed by Vince Prevett, MOT expired in August 2015 the owner of VP Motorcycles, and now will require a and his apprentice Rico general check over before Sgueglia. The build was obtaining its next MOT. V5C, finished earlier this year and no MOT Sold for 450 has been in the vendor's ownership since April. The motorcycle is beautifully constructed with short 18 A 1979 Austin Morris Mini megaphone exhausts, which 1000, registration number have partial baffles, a hand JNM 113V, white. This built aluminium fairing, petrol automatic Mini has had two tank, seat unit and front registered keepers from new. mudguard, which were built It was originally supplied by by Lamb Engineering; the Mann Egerton, High Street, 13 A 1976 Honda paintwork was prepared and Bury Lane, Rickmansworth, CB400/Four Super Sport, painted by Andover Hertfordshire, and registered registration number SCG Hyperformance Bodyshop; all on 7 November 1979. 202P, red. This beautifully chrome and alloy was either Accompanying the Mini is a presented 400/Four has been replated or chromed by comprehensive history file restored and maintained to a Hampshire Platers.
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