Brough Superior 1150 (1934)

The Brough Superior SS100 occupies a near-mythical place in motorcycling history. Hand-built in Nottingham under George Brough, the SS100 was sold as an elite, individually specified motorcycle and became famous as the “Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles,” a nickname Brough later gained permission to use.

The SS100’s reputation came from more than luxury. Each machine was guaranteed capable of 100 mph, an extraordinary claim for its era, and the model became closely linked with record attempts, speed trials and famous owners including T. E. Lawrence. A 1934 example sits in the mature period of the SS100 story, when Brough Superior had become a symbol of speed, craftsmanship and pre-war British engineering prestige.