£10,925 (Est: £8,000 - £12,000)
1929 Lea-Francis 1½-Litre 12/40hp P-Type Tourer
Bonhams • UK • 6 Sept 2025
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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£10,925 (Est: £8,000 - £12,000)
1929 Lea-Francis 1½-Litre 12/40hp P-Type Tourer
UK • 6 Sept 2025
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1929 Lea-Francis P-Type Tourer, with coachwork by Cross & Ellis, has a known history back to the early 1970s and has been under current ownership since 1982. While it has been maintained and campaigned enthusiastically, it features an older restoration, a replacement engine, and some collision damage from 2017.
Condition
6
The vendor describes the car as in good condition throughout. It had an older restoration and has been enthusiastically maintained. The car was involved in a collision in March 2017 that resulted in the front axle needing to be straightened and the offside front mudguard refinished. The car no longer has its original engine, and the replacement breathes via an SU carburettor instead of the original Solex. Some reconditioning is required.
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Manual
UV 273
United Kingdom
13871
1929
Auction
£10,925 (Est: £8,000 - £12,000)
1929 Lea-Francis 1½-Litre 12/40hp P-Type Tourer
Bonhams • UK • 6 Sept 2025
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Description
• History known back to the early 1970s and beyond • Present ownership since 1982 • An older restoration • Enthusiastically maintained and campaigned Already established as a maker of bicycles of the finest quality, Coventry-based Lea-Francis turned to motorcycle manufacture in 1911, proving equally successful in this new enterprise.
The company's first venture into motor manufacturing though, was a relative failure, but in 1922 Lea-Francis exhibited a light car powered by an 8.9hp Coventry Simplex sidevalve engine, and this C-type model would be the first produced in significant numbers.
The Coventry Simplex was soon replaced by a 1,247cc overhead-valve Meadows unit (on the D-type) while two 12/40hp models powered by Meadows' famous 1,497cc 4ED engine were additions to the range for 1926.
More powerful than its predecessors, the 4ED necessitated the introduction of a redesigned chassis, which was longer, wider and equipped with semi-elliptic springing all round, and a stronger, spi...
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