Brough Superior Golden Dream

The Brough Superior Golden Dream was meant to be the ultimate Brough Superior, designed and built by George Brough in Nottingham, England, in 1938 with Ike Hatch and Freddie Dixon. It took its name from its distinctive gold finish. Its unusual engine placed two horizontally opposed flat twins one above the other and geared together, so that the crankshafts turned in opposite directions; Brough described it as a flat vertical engine. The four cylinders were first 68 mm by 68 mm, giving 988 cc, and were later reworked to 998 cc with chain driven camshafts. Final drive was by shaft with an underslung worm and pinion, and the rear wheel was sprung on plungers. The Dream was shown at the Earls Court motorcycle show in London in 1938. Five were produced in 1939, but the outbreak of war stopped production and the company never returned to motorcycles. A few survive, including one that runs.