c.1907/09 Fafnir engine, believed 3.5 hp, unidentified frame...

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£2,900

c.1907/09 Fafnir engine, believed 3.5 hp, unidentified frame and tank. Frame number not found. Engine number 12539.
Fafnir was a German engine and vehicle manufacturer based in Aachen, between 1908 and 1926. The company was founded in 1894 producing needles, with the growth of the bicycle industry; they started to make wheel spokes. From 1900, the company produced motorcycle engines in various capacities up to 8h.p. V-twins and between 1903 and 1914 they also produced complete motorcycles.
The engine is also stamped 80 m/m. Bonhams sold engine number 11895 as lot 14 in the sale on 30th June 2008 as part of the Professor Fritz Ehn collection; they dated it to c. 1904. Very few complete machines are known to exist; a 1909 example is in the Jeparit Museum of Victoria, Australia. Sold with a letter from Baz Staple, past Fafnir registrar of the V.M.C.C. dated 1988.
Provenance; Purchased from Pat Chapman Museum, Tag Island, London 1987. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to what they are buying.