A firm with its roots in the Victorian bicycle industry, Humber began experimenting with powered transport in the closing years of the 19th Century, introducing its first successful motorcycle - a built-under-license P&M - in 1902 and the first all-Humber design in 1908. A 500cc sidevalve, this new 3½hp model carried its engine in the conventional position and featured belt drive to a two-speed rear hub. V-twin and flat-twin models followed, Humber’s first post-WWI offering being a 4½hp version of the latter. This heavyweight machine - ‘The Silent Humber’ - was joined for 1923 by a 2¾hp lightweight sports model powered by a single-cylinder sidevalve engine of 75x79mm bore/stroke displacing 349cc. Refined and speedy, the newcomer proved good enough to secure Humber the Team Prize in the 1923 ACU Six Days Trial and would provide the basis of its future motorcycle range, spawning overhead-valve and, later, overhead-camshaft derivatives. Produced in touring and sports versions, the 2¾hp sidevalve Humber remained in the range until motorcycle production ceased at the end of 1930. This sidevalve-engined 350 Humber was first registered in Perth and remained in Scotland until 1973. The accompanying old-style continuation logbook (issued January 1942) records four owners up to October 1946 when the machine was purchased by the vendor’s grandfather. It has remained in the family’s ownership ever since, being kept in dry storage, and was last started circa 1965. Offered with old-style Swansea V5.
A firm with its roots in the Victorian bicycle industry, Humber began experimenting with powered transport in the closing years of the 19th Century, introducing its first successful motorcycle - a built-under-license P&M - in 1902 and the first all-Humber design in 1908. A 500cc sidevalve, this new 3½hp model carried its engine in the conventional position and featured belt drive to a two-speed rear hub. V-twin and flat-twin models followed, Humber’s first post-WWI offering being a 4½hp version of the latter. This heavyweight machine - ‘The Silent Humber’ - was joined for 1923 by a 2¾hp lightweight sports model powered by a single-cylinder sidevalve engine of 75x79mm bore/stroke displacing 349cc. Refined and speedy, the newcomer proved good enough to secure Humber the Team Prize in the 1923 ACU Six Days Trial and would provide the basis of its future motorcycle range, spawning overhead-valve and, later, overhead-camshaft derivatives. Produced in touring and sports versions, the 2¾hp sidevalve Humber remained in the range until motorcycle production ceased at the end of 1930. This sidevalve-engined 350 Humber was first registered in Perth and remained in Scotland until 1973. The accompanying old-style continuation logbook (issued January 1942) records four owners up to October 1946 when the machine was purchased by the vendor’s grandfather. It has remained in the family’s ownership ever since, being kept in dry storage, and was last started circa 1965. Offered with old-style Swansea V5.
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