I did not enjoy riding the Yamaha Serow 250 reported in RC218/219. Everything about the bike was whizzy, modern and too immediate. If I wanted to ride ancient un-tarmacadam-ised roads then maybe I should use older, less modern machinery? I sold the Serow and I searched for a 1937/38 AMC 250cc four-stroke single. This would be a rare machine because the AMC factory switched all production at that time to the WD 350 for the impending war effort. All reports of the earlier 250 and 350 machines were very complimentary and I felt that such a machine was exactly what I was looking for. Sadly, this did not happen.
However, I came across this 1937 Sunbeam 250 Model 14, which was probably one of the last true Sunbeams made in the Sunbeamland factory in Wolverhampton. It looked cobby and I thought it would easily cope with the green lanes of Wiltshire. The Sunbeam
