Sunbeam S7 Produced from December 1946 until April 1949, approximately 2100 manufactured.
Distinctive features: – note this page needs clarification and work – site under construction
- Available in black only
- Plunger style front fork suspension
- Stubby ‘Lucas MC45’ dynamo
- Inverted handlebar control levelers and ‘clean’ handlebars (no wires)
- Cantilever seat suspension
- Small circular rear light (this changed during production, from a rear light only to a rear light with brake light combined)
- Blue tank badge with ‘Sunbeam’ in white
- Cigar shaped exhaust
- Fat aluminum carburettor cover or round bell type
- Horn mounted on the front part of the frame above the dynamo
- Fat tyres
- No side stand
- Balloon tyres
- Rippled petrol cap
- Tax disk holder in the front suspension fork shroud
Sunbeam S7 Deluxe
Produced from Spring 1949 until 1956, approximately 5500 manufactured.
Distinctive features
- Available in ‘Mist Green’ (some were supplied in standard BSA colours, especially to Canada and USA)
- Sunbeam designed front suspension, shares no parts with BSA
- Normal ‘Lucas MC45L’ dynamo
- Normal control levelers
- Cantilever seat suspension
- Tank badges blue on early bikes, and yellow later
- Cigar shaped exhaust
- Flat pressed steel carburettor cover
- Horn mounted on the frame behind the rear brake pedal
- Balloon tyres
- Side stand
- Normal main stand
- Flat petrol cap
- Tax disk holder in the front suspension fork shroud
Sunbeam S8
Produced from Spring 1949 until 1956, approximately 8300 manufactured.
Distinctive features
- Available in Black or polychromatic grey (some were supplied in standard BSA colours, especially to Canada and USA)
- Conventional BSA type front fork suspension
- Normal ‘Lucas MC45L’ dynamo
- Normal control levelers
- Spring mounted three point attachment seat
- Tank badges blue on early bikes, and yellow later
- Aluminum cast exhaust with art-deco styling
- Flat pressed steel carburettor cover
- Horn mounted on the left hand side of the frame behind the rear brake pedal
- Conventional tyres
- Side stand
- Normal main stand
- Flat petrol cap
- Plain fork shrouds