1934 | BSA Threewheeler

• Exquisite restoration recently completed

• Fully documented rebuild

• Powerful 1075cc, four-cylinder, sidevalve engine

• Useable luggage space for touring

Looking resplendent in two-tone grey and red, this BSA three-wheeler was beautifully restored over a number of years by an engineer who had previously rebuilt vintage Triumph motorcycles. He took on the BSA as a retirement project and the end result is testament to the painstaking care that he put into it.

First registered in August 1934, the car had been off the road for a long time when work got under way, and the rebuild started from the bare-chassis stage. While early BSA three-wheelers were powered by a V-twin engine, this is a later model that benefits from the more powerful, water-cooled, 1075cc, four-cylinder unit.

Cooling was originally via a thermosyphon system, but it has now been sensibly upgraded thanks to the addition of an electric water pump. The gearbox is a three-speed unit, plus reverse, with drive being supplied to the front wheels.

The finishing touch for the restoration was a stylish colour scheme that remained faithful to the factory’s original two-tone offering, the red spreading out from a point just behind the radiator cap and running all the way to the tail.

The rebuild is meticulously detailed via a collection of invoices covering everything down to the last nut and bolt, plus diagrams, notes and a USB stick of photographs. There is also a box of spares that includes an original Solex carburettor, a Smiths rev counter, and a copy of marque expert Mike Scott-Coomber’s guide to ‘Servicing and Rebuilding the BSA Three-Wheeler’.

Thanks to features such as independent front suspension – via transverse leaf springs – and the fact that it has space for luggage, this BSA is offered for sale as a more practical choice of three-wheeler than a contemporary Morgan. Period brochures boasted of its ‘car-type controls’, and it remains just as usable and charming even 90 years later.