1935 Francis Barnet Cruiser Registration Number: CHK 592 Fr...

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£2,000 - £2,500

1935 Francis Barnet Cruiser

Registration Number: CHK 592
Frame Number: EB 30844

- In current private ownership since 2008

Setting up shop in the old Excelsior works in Coventry, Gordon Francis and Arthur Barnett founded Francis-Barnett in 1919, soon adapting to market conditions to produce more utilitarian models during the 1920s. The first of these was the triangulated, pin-jointed, straight-tube frame models of 1923. Experience in the production of pressed-steel car components resulted in yet another innovative model the following decade, the partially enclosed Cruiser from 1933 to 1940. The frame combined a forged ‘downtube’ beam with channel-section pressings and pressed-steel bladed forks, while other notable features included built-in leg shields, deeply valanced mudguards, and detachable engine/gearbox covers. Although of modest performance, the Cruiser offered touring at a relaxed pace, and in style. 

This Cruiser was first registered in May 1935, to be owned from the early 1980s by scientist Ian Rainy Calder, until passing to the current recorded owner in 2008. Dry stored in recent times, the Cruiser is offered with current and older registration documents.