Bread and dripping De Luxe!
When Alex Taylor wanted a pre-Second World War motorcycle for runs with the pre-Second World War only Sunbeam Club, he chose this 350cc, ohv 1937 Royal Enfield Model G2.
Alex, a retired garage owner and classic collector, has had several machines featured in The Classic MotorCycle, including a very nice postwar Model G, and is a member of the REOC. He secured the 1937 single at Richard Edmond’s auction in Chippenham – but it came with a heftier price-tag than postwar equivalents.
De-Luxe and De-Lovely?
The compensation was a high degree of originality, though there were some exceptions. Enfield’s roadster range for that year had employed fishtail-type silencers, not the later uptilted tubular item seen here. The taillight fitted was no longer the circular original, and the oblong toolbox was missing.
The ‘G2’ tag indicated that, for a price hike of £8 over the Model G’s £48-10s, the 350 was offered as a De Luxe variant; so were the company’s Model T 125 two-stroke, and the Model G’s 500cc equivalent, the Model J, all for 1937 only. (There were also Competition
