Prompted by an old friend, I went to the Transport sale at the Apsley Road sale rooms in Bristol on Tuesday. There were lots of interesting things, genuine locomotive name plates making tens of thousands & even some model railway carriages fetching £1,200 for six!
I bid on various IC engine lots, a model Wankel rotary, two small engines, a Westbury "Centaur" but backed out when I considered they were getting too expensive. There was only one that I really wanted, a very tidy working model of an Anzani "Brevete" , a three cylinder "Y" configuration radial. I paid rather more for it than I'd have liked & was at my limit when the other bidder stopped - & this prior to the swingeing 19.50% premium plus VAT. Ah well, it's only money & never going to be worth less, is it?
I've been trawling the net but can find no information about the model. I think it must be kit built from a small production run as it has a serial number & the crankcase , covers & cylinder muffs are castings. Any information anyone can help with will be most welcome. Aspects of the model suggest it might be thirty or forty years old - but I might be quite wrong, of course.
If you are going, I'll have it with me on Sunday at the Wessex crank up at Nunney Catch.
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Kim Siddorn
Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.