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Fellow Centre Member has 9 Broughs (at last count) and a Brough Car he has just finished restoring..... apart from his +8, 2 x 3 wheelers and other 'wheels'..!!

minikeefy .... that's some private herd of Broughs!! ..... the group in the Invercargill museum was more than I'd ever seen in total elsewhere.

K

Fella I know restores these. Has a big workshop rammed with them

I've always thought of these as being very rare ... does anyone have an idea of how many are still in existence?

K

I've asked John if he knows - he has at least 'double figures' in his own collection.

Thank you for sharing! The motorcycle brand that stands above all others. Next to the american brand Crocker maybe, but that brand was much smaller...

Must see for all Brough Superior admirers, Jay Lenos collection:

He has a whole room just for Brough Superiors. Awesome. Thanks for posting

Many thanks for posting Peter.

For those who are within reach of Nottingham, the Industrial Museum in Wollaton Park has a collection of Brough Superior motorcycles together with one of the cars. They also have machines from Raleigh (as you would expect). The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays although groups can visit on weekdays by arrangement. There is also a magnificent beam engine (which is in steam a few days a year) and a Strowger telephone exchange. The collection of lace making machines is also worth a look - at least one has a card system for programming. And since Ada Lovelace first suggested the use of Jacquard cards as a means to programme a Babbage Difference Engine, it could make Nottingham the birthplace of computing .....

Here is a link to the museum's page on their collections.

Thread drift alert! .... the mention of the Strowger Exchange took me back ..... when I worked in telecoms (radio in my case) we often had to work with the Post Office Telephone Engineers (which tells you it was a while ago!!🙂) .... one told me they had a dodge they used to use when they were on call-out ... they used to put a fag paper between two particular contacts at the exchange before leaving ... then at night they'd call a number which would fail due to those contacts not making, initiating a call-out (and the allowance it generated) ... they'd have a snooze for an hour then call another selected number which caused the contacts to open and the fag paper to drop out hence clearing the 'fault' ... all without getting out of bed.

Back on track .... Brough's are obviously not as rare as I thought .... one presumes the prices they fetch reflects the rarity with which they leave collections for the open market rather than absolute numbers?

K

According to Wiki, there were just over 3000 Brough's made, and in 2004, over 1000 still in existance.