1945/49 Royal Enfield RE125 Flying Flea, 125cc. Registration...

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£2,500

1945/49 Royal Enfield RE125 Flying Flea, 125cc. Registration number HWU 988. Frame number 5848. Engine number V1758.
There is no paperwork with this machine but it is recorded with DVLA, this should not be a problem for the buyer to send for.
The original design was by DKW in 1935, a 98cc 2-stroke known as the DKW RT100, which went on to become the hugely successful and much copied RT125. In early 1938 the Dutch company took the designs to RE who increased the engine capacity to 125cc and it was used for airborne drops during WWII. Post war it was produced for the civilian market but remained very similar until 1950 when the pressed steel forks with rubber bands were replaced by telescopics. There is no paperwork with this machine.

Our vendor has now found the Army tag, see images, proving production in 1945, it will have then been released from service in 1949 when it was first registered with DVLA. Contact S1945, Batch 25, frame numbers 4170-8170, Allocation 5111171-5115170. The page is from British Forces Motorcycles 1925-1945 by Orchard and Madden, page 219.