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Three models were produced, the S7, S7 "de luxe" and the S8. All three were very expensive with only modest performance resulting in low sales. The original model was the S7 (the "Tourer") (2,104 produced from 1946 to 1948), in 1949 the S7 was updated to become the S7 de luxe (5,554 produced) and the S8 (8,530 produced).
The S7 design was improved and then sold as the S7 Deluxe. The original S7 was available only in black, whereas the standard colours for the S8 were "Polychromatic Grey" or black. The S7 Deluxe came in either "Mist Green" or black. If sold abroad then BSA would supply the Sunbeam in almost any colour that BSA used.
The Marman Twin was made in 1948 and 1949 [3] Vincent Black Shadow. A restored Sunbeam S7, a model available in Britain in green (pictured) or black [4]
Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited was a British automobile manufacturer in operation between 1905 and 1934. Its works were at Moorfields in Blakenhall, a suburb of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire, now West Midlands. The Sunbeam name had originally been registered by John Marston in 1888 for his bicycle manufacturing business. Sunbeam motor car ...
Sunbeam S7: 487 cc (29.7 cu in) 1947 United Kingdom Indian Chief: 1,206 cc (73.6 cu in) 1948 United States Solex Vélosolex: 45 cc (2.7 cu in) 1948 France Imme R100: 99 cc (6.0 cu in) 1949 West Germany Jackson-Rotrax JAP Speedway: 490 cc (30 cu in) 1949 United Kingdom Sunbeam S7 Deluxe: 500 cc (31 cu in) 1950 United Kingdom
Motorcycles introduced in 1948 (6 P) Motorcycles introduced in 1949 (1 P) Pages in category "Motorcycles introduced in the 1940s" ... Sunbeam S7 and S8; V. Vespa;
Newcastle double-decker No. 501 built in 1948. This is a Sunbeam S7 with Metropolitan-Vickers electrical equipment and bodywork by Northern Coachbuilders. It was withdrawn from service between 1963 and 1965. [32]
Guy had by then built 496 trolleybus chassis, [16] but in 1948, they acquired Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles Limited and from then on, all trolleybuses produced (except some for UK operators carrying Karrier badges) carried the Sunbeam name. Trolleybuses continued to sell well, with the Sunbeam becoming the most popular model in South Africa. [3]