1958 Greeves Scottish, 197cc. Registration number 660 FPF (n...

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1958 Greeves Scottish, 197cc. Registration number 660 FPF (not registered with DVLA). Frame number 9027/TA. Engine number 071B/53965.
Bert Greeves established the Invacar company to manufacture powered invalid carriages, before diversifying into motorcycle production from 1951. The company's products, built at Thundersley in Essex, always displayed innovative design features, including the use of a cast aluminum front section for the frame and from the outset were thoroughly developed before going on sale to the public. At the heart of this policy was an active competition programme with the early prototypes being used in scrambles and which would later see Greeves motorcycles competing in trials, road racing and ISDT events in addition to scrambles.
The 20TA trials model was introduced for the 1958 season, being given the name "Scottish" in celebration of Jack Simpson's win in the 200cc class of the 1957 Scottish Six Days Trial, the first year that Greeves entered a works team. The new model, which benefited greatly from Brian Stonebridge's development efforts, employed the 20SA scrambles frame equipped with revised footrests and a sprung saddle and housed a Villiers 9E engine fitted with a wide ratio gearbox, a longer inlet tract for the Villiers S25 carburettor and a high level exhaust system with a modified Villiers silencer.
FPF was owned by Brett Shiers of Pulborough in October 1970, passing to Michael Tidy on Cranleigh and then Brian Marris of Guildford in 1977. Little is then known of her life and she is offered as an older restoration that will need some recommissioning before use.
Sold with V.E.60.