1967 Honda P50. 49cc. Registration number WAR 176E (non tran...

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£850

1967 Honda P50. 49cc. Registration number WAR 176E (non transferrable). Frame number P50 - A127661. Engine number 127557.
Sold with the V5C, RF60, 1969 tax disc, 1970 MOT, the dating certificate,, an owners manual and the original tool kit
Almost the Holy Grail for collectors of Honda mopeds! In production for just over two year’s 1966 to 1968, the ‘Little Honda’ was unique at that time having an overhead valve four stroke motor, when all other manufacturers were using two strokes. The design of the engine, being part of the wheel however, was copied directly from the ‘Winged Wheel’ produced by BSA some 20 years earlier and was the last ‘Motor in wheel’ design to be marketed anywhere in the World.
The 49cc engine gave out 1.2hp @ 4200rpm, and the machine weighed 45kg.
This rare, unrestored, machine was bought by Betty Smith on the 16th May 1967 and she did not get on with it so it was left in the garage and hardly used, there is an MOT on file from 1970 and a 1969 tax disc.
In 2006 her son obtained a dating certificate from the owners club and our vendor bought it from him in 2008. It has been id dry storage ever since, although it was recently started on a slave petrol tank.
Rarely do unrestored examples of this machine appear on the market.
Sold with the V5C, RF60, 1969 tax disc, 1970 MOT, the dating certificate,, an owners manual and the original tool kit