auction with a small but expensive difference

Don’t have room for a real motorbike? Buy a scale model instead.

At the next Cheffins Vintage Sale on 20 October there are three accurate scale models of vintage motorbikes, estimated to sell for about £3000 apiece – more, claims Cheffins, than the full-scale machines. Built by model-maker Ian Glasspool, these models are replicas of a 1922 Douglas Sports Motorcycle, a 1931 Brough Superior BS4 and a 1928 Ascot-Pullin.

The models took months to build from thousands of parts and have won awards at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition.

Glasspool is also selling a miniature 1905 Daimler Limousine which he built copying the original vehicle at Haynes Motor Museum in Yeovil.