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£3,100
1934 OK Supreme Flying Cloud, 249 cc. Registration number VN 6100. Frame number 19273. Engine number PO/D/39227/S.
In 1882, Ernie Humphries and Charles Dawes founded 'OK' as bicycle manufacturers. They experimented with powered bicycles in 1899 and 1906 before making a two-stroke motorcycle using a Precision engine in 1911. Before the First World War, they had produced motorcycles with Precision, De Dion, Minerva, and Green engines. Their first entry in the Isle of Man TT, in 1912, led to a ninth place and mainly modest results came during the following years when OK-Supreme machines finished in every place from 1st, in the 1928 Lightweight TT, to 10th. In the 1922 TT the fastest lap was set by Wal L. Handley at 51mph on an OK-Supreme but he failed to finish the race. After the First World War, OK produced a 292cc two-stroke motor of its own but also produced models using Blackburne, Bradshaw, and JAP engines. In the 1930s OK Supreme produced a Lighthouse 250cc and 348cc model, so named because of the little inspection window in the cam tower, which was OK-Supreme's final model.
VN has an unknown history until it was registered with DVLA in 1982 when it passed an MOT and again the following year in Middlesbrough. In January 1998 Ronald Hull of Trimdon Station bought it and our vendor bought it from him in March 2006 as a restoration project. This has never progressed and he now accepts that he will never undertake it and wishes to pass it onto someone who will.
Sold with the V5C, the two MOTS and an insurance document.
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