South of England Motorcycle Show

1 South of England Motorcycle Show Sunday 27 March 2022. South of England Showground, Ardingly RH17 6TL. ELK Promotions 2022. 2022 Show Timetable 11:00 Fire-up Paddock : outside Queens Jubilee Show Hall. See Some Super Race Bikes and One-Off Machines Fired Up Including the AJS World Land Speed contender replica OHC 1000cc V-twin 13:00 Fire-up Paddock : outside Queens Jubilee Show Hall. 14:30 Queens Jubilee Show Hall : Prize-giving Show Results: Sunday 31 October 2021. Best Pre 1950. 1st Chris Boakes (Kent) 1923 AJS Model D. Best 1950 1959. 1st John Lelliott (West Sussex). 1959 500cc BSA Gold Star DBD34. 2nd Dave Wilmer (West Sussex) 500cc BSA A7SS. Best 1960 1969. 1st Mick Lee (West Sussex) 1962 650cc Triumph Bonneville. 2nd Ray Leggett, 1969 175cc BSA Bantam Preservation Group (West Sussex). BSA Bantam D14/4 Sport. Best 1970 on 1st Dave Harding (West Sussex) BSA OC (East Sussex).

2 1971 650cc BSA A65. Thunderbolt 2nd Jamie Donaldson (Kent) 1974 650cc Benelli Tornado. Best Competition/ Special 1st Colin Murrells (Kent) 1935 250cc Velocette GTP. 2nd Geoff Smithers (West Sussex) Roaring Twenties MCC. 1926 500cc Norton Model 18. Best Heavyweight (250cc and over). 1st Chris Boakes (Kent) 1926 770cc BSA Model E. 2nd Mike Petryszyn Norton OC (Surrey). (Surrey) 1993 588cc Norton Commander Krauser. Best Lightweight (Under 250cc). 1st Vince Gill (Kent) 1956 250cc BSA C12. 2nd Jeremy Frank (East Sussex) 1962 250cc Ariel Arrow. Best British 1st John Chubb. Sunbeam 350cc Wooler. 2nd Paul Watson (Kent) 1931 500cc Sunbeam 9/90. Best Overseas 1st Mr A Remnant (West Sussex) 1973 550cc Suzuki GT550. First time at this show. 2nd Jules East (Kent) Sunbeam MCC. 1922 170cc Le Grimpeur model PS. Best Club Stand British Owners Club Essex. Visit for Our Future Dates Year The Make Model South of England cc / HPShow : 27 Classes Classic Motorcycle Entered March 2022.

3 Year Make Model cc / HP Classes Entered 1903 Clement V twin 3 Pre 1950 Lightweight Overseas Club: Sunbeam MCC. Bike Details: First time at a show for this bike which has been under long term restoration. It was finally finished in lockdown. A rare machine, believed to be the only example in the UK. 1913 JES A 116 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: Sunbeam MCC. Bike Details: 1913 auxiliary engine fitted to a 1913 Tring frame. The engine was made in Gloucester, and the frame made in Hertfordshire. The engine is a fixed one horse-power / 116cc four-stroke. The bike was rescued from a scrap yard sometime in the 1990's and is on the Sunbeam MCC Pioneer register. 1919 Douglas ES 2 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: First time at this Show. 1920 Douglas W20 2 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: Sunbeam MCC. Bike Details: After supplying 25,000 motorcycles to the armed services in WWI Douglas returned to civilian production in 1919 with a range of 'Peace programme ' models.

4 Priced at 90 with three-speed gearbox, clutch, footboards and kick-start, the W20 was the most expensive top-of-the-range Deluxe model of the 1920 2 HP models. This machine was left in the store room of a London Motorcycle dealership in a non-running, derelict condition for many years. Purchased when the dealer closed in 2005, it was restored by the owner in time for the Douglas centenary in 2007 and used for London Douglas Club events, shows and Brooklands events. 1926 Cotton Brooklands Blackbur 2 Pre 1950 Lightweight Competition / Special Club: Roaring Twenties MCC. Bike Details: This motor cycle is a replica of the type of machine that would have been used at Brooklands during the mid to late twenties. The 350cc engine is a genuine ex-Brooklands motor that came from Mr FC Millar, and was raced by him in the twenties. Freddie Millar raced Cotton and Chater Lea at Brooklands in the twenties.

5 He ran 'Millars Motors of Mitcham' in Surrey from the twenties to the sixties. 1927 Sunbeam 9 493 Pre 1950. Club: Sunbeam MCC. Bike Details: A garage find from Edinburgh 1927 Francis-Barnett 172 Pre 1950 Lightweight Competition / Special Club: Roaring Twenties MCC. Bike Details: A Race Bike fitted with a Villiers Brooklands engine of the period. 1928 Scott Flying Squirrel 600 Pre 1950. Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: First registered November 1928. 1928 AJCette OHC 500 Pre 1950 Competition / Special Club: AJS & Matchless OC (Sussex). Bike Details: A really unusual special, built by the talented engineer Richard Johns. This project started with a 1928 350cc side-valve AJS bought on eBay. The performance not too inspiring at 46 mph flat out, so the basis of the project was to make an OHC engine. This was based on late SB6 AJS Big Port crankcases with a three-bearing crank, using a Mk 1 cammy Velocette cylinder barrel, head and cambox and converting it to chain drive.

6 Hear it run in the Fire-Paddock adjacent to the Show Hall at 11am and 1pm today. 1929 Matchless V2 500 Pre 1950. Club: AJS & Matchless OC (Sussex). Bike Details: OHV sporting machine, originally marketed by Matchless with a guaranteed speed of 85 mph. Manufactured for 2 years only 1928/1929. Made by the Collier Brothers to enable the rider to enter road time trials and other specialist events The South of England Classic Motorcycle Show : 27 March 2022. Year Make Model cc / HP Classes Entered 1929 SOS Race Bike - Pre 1950 Lightweight Competition / Special Club: Roaring Twenties MCC. Bike Details: This racing machine is fitted with a Brooklands Two-stroke engine. 1929/3 AJS OHC v-twin 1000 Pre 1950 Competition / Special Club: AJS & Matchless OC (Sussex). Bike Details: A running recreation of the OHC v-twin 1000 cc bike built by AJS in 1929/30 for an attempt at the World Speed Record.

7 Built by the talented engineer Richard Johns. The AJS V-Twin project has been one of his most challenging to date and has involved using his stock of early Velo components to re-create a one-off bike that had first been made by AJS in 1930 for an attempt on the world speed record. The engine of this original version is essentially two 500cc R10. cylinders, heads and cam-boxes on V-Twin crankcases. Richard's bike is not an exact copy and uses two Mk1 OHC Velocette cylinder barrels, heads and cam- boxes, with the components for the rest of the engine manufactured from scratch. An AJS chassis and gearbox, etc were then added to make the rest of the bike Hear it run in the Fire-Paddock adjacent to the Show Hall at 11am and 1pm today. 1932 Norton International 30 500 Pre 1950 Competition / Special Club: Norton OC (Surrey). Bike Details: This is a 1932 International Norton with late 30's upgrades including hair-pin valve springs, magnesium racing cam box, front fork check springs, rev counter and Doll's Head Inter gearbox with Daytona first gear.

8 1937 Rudge Ulster 500 Pre 1950. Club: VMCC (East Sussex). Bike Details: Total rebuild of my father's bike (Charlie Stanford), which broke down and was left against the garden wall. After some years, Mrs Stanford skipped it, and on coming home from work Dad had to hot-foot it to find it! Luckily he retrieved it, and again left it propped up against the garden wall as the sub-frame had been damaged whilst in transit in the skip. Some years later, I started work on the machine, and it has taken six years to complete. 1937 Velocette KSS MK II 350 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: Pre-War Velocette with the fabled cammy engine. 1938 Rudge Sports Special 500 Pre 1950 Competition / Special Club: VMCC (Surrey & Sussex). Bike Details: The Sports Special 500cc model was introduced in 1937, production ceased in 1939. This example has been rebuilt twice, first time from a basket case where parts were missing, the second time after an accident in 2000.

9 1939 Ariel W/NG 350 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: VMCC (East Sussex). Bike Details: An ex WWII army machine restored to civilian specification nearly 20 years ago. It has covered over 22,000 trouble-free miles since restoration. VMCC member. 1940 Triumph 3HW 350 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: First time at this show. 1940/4 Norton WD 16H 500 Pre 1950. Club: Norton OC (Surrey). Bike Details: 1942 BSA WD-M20 500 Pre 1950. Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: 1942 Matchless WD G3L 350 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: British Owners Club Essex Bike Details: The South of England Classic Motorcycle Show : 27 March 2022. Year Make Model cc / HP Classes Entered 1944 Triumph 3HW 350 Pre 1950 Lightweight Club: Triumph OC (West Sussex). Bike Details: Manufactured in September 1944 and delivered to the military at Littlewoods Liverpool, then a military vehicle depot.

10 Sold back to Triumph after the war, refurbished (painted black and chromed) and exported to India. Repatriated in the late 90's, totally worn out, and rebuilt by the present owner in 2001. It has since covered 15,000 miles since then, including 7 visits to the Normandy D-Day commemorations. 1947 Norton Manx 500 Pre 1950 Competition / Special Club: Bike Details: This bike was raced early in its life, but its race history is not known. Now used for shows and track parades. With garden-gate frame, it has not been restored. 1947 Vincent Rapide Series 'B' 998 Pre 1950. Club: Vincent HRD OC. Bike Details: Built from a box of bits with a lot of help from friends in the Vincent Owners Club. Finished in 2007 after 17yrs of hard work and lots of searching for the right bits. It had the wrong forks, wrong RFM (I now have the correct and original RFM, found sawn up and missing some lugs, but with its original correct number rear lug, thanks Conways), trailer mudguards, Triumph Herald car wheels (with home made hubs), disc brakes, chrome headlamp plus many odd fittings.