ex-Hubert Chantrey 1932 Brough Superior 800cc Model BS4 Project
Malcolm Barber, Bonhams Co-Chairman and auctioneer, said: “The Bonhams team have held an auction at the Stafford International Motorcycle show for more than 28 years. The sale is an institution, and one that rightly attracts the attention of motorcycle enthusiasts from across the globe. With a packed saleroom and bids coming in internationally – including a determined bidder who flew in from the antipodes – and several world records achieved, such as for the 1956 Vincent 499cc Comet Series-C/D which sold for £55,200, as well as of course for Brough Superior, it’s been yet another incredible Stafford Sale.”
The Bonhams Sale featured the best of British motorcycles, with Vincent, Coventry Eagle, and of course the rarest of Brough Superiors leading more than 230 machines to achieve a total £3,454,501.
Further successes of the Sale include the 1939 Vincent-HRD 998cc Rapide Series-A Project, sold to a European bidder for £270,300; the 1929 Coventry-Eagle 980cc Flying-8 OHV, sold for £163,900, and the c.1959 Norton-JAP 998cc Sprinter ‘Thor’, sold for £61,990.
