1959 Velocette Venom, 500cc. Registration number 148 DTX. Fr...
1959 Velocette Venom, 500cc. Registration number 148 DTX. Frame number RS 13210. Engine number VM 3433.
Sold with the V5C, R.F. 60, large history folder.
The Venom was Velocette’s hottest bike from its inception in 1955. In 1961 a factory-prepared Venom with a small fairing set the world’s 24-hour endurance speed record of 100.05 MPH at the Montlhery race track in France. In a field crowded with a new crop of vertical twins from nearly every maker, Velocette simply didn’t have the means to join the vertical twin race. They had to make do with what they had, that being a line of very advance singles. The Venom had an alloy cylinder with cast iron liner, an alloy cylinder head and a high compression piston. The cam was set high in the crankcase to allow for very short pushrods. This offered some of the benefits of an overhead cam setup, but was much simpler and cheaper to produce. The Venom was produced until 1970.
DTX was originally sold by Cyril Morgan Motors of Caerphilly to Micheal Hartley on the 20th November 1959, he sold it to Martin Blizard in 1964, then Christopher Moore bought it in 1971.
Chris rode it until Covid in 2021 and then passed it to our vendor, his friend in 2023. Unfortunately he became ill and never rode it.
Chris rode it over 100,000 miles, there MOT's on file from 1974 until 2013 (1977, 79, 88 are missing). It has had a Criterion alternator conversion and been a very reliable machine over the years. Also included are the panniers and a quantity of Velocette literature
1959 Velocette Venom, 500cc. Registration number 148 DTX. Frame number RS 13210. Engine number VM 3433.
Sold with the V5C, R.F. 60, large history folder.
The Venom was Velocette’s hottest bike from its inception in 1955. In 1961 a factory-prepared Venom with a small fairing set the world’s 24-hour endurance speed record of 100.05 MPH at the Montlhery race track in France. In a field crowded with a new crop of vertical twins from nearly every maker, Velocette simply didn’t have the means to join the vertical twin race. They had to make do with what they had, that being a line of very advance singles. The Venom had an alloy cylinder with cast iron liner, an alloy cylinder head and a high compression piston. The cam was set high in the crankcase to allow for very short pushrods. This offered some of the benefits of an overhead cam setup, but was much simpler and cheaper to produce. The Venom was produced until 1970.
DTX was originally sold by Cyril Morgan Motors of Caerphilly to Micheal Hartley on the 20th November 1959, he sold it to Martin Blizard in 1964, then Christopher Moore bought it in 1971.
Chris rode it until Covid in 2021 and then passed it to our vendor, his friend in 2023. Unfortunately he became ill and never rode it.
Chris rode it over 100,000 miles, there MOT's on file from 1974 until 2013 (1977, 79, 88 are missing). It has had a Criterion alternator conversion and been a very reliable machine over the years. Also included are the panniers and a quantity of Velocette literature
