Lea Francis 1.5-Litre Hyper Sports S-Type

About the Lea Francis 1.5-Litre Hyper Sports S-Type

Lea-Francis built cars under licence for the Singer company. In 1919 they started to build their own cars from bought-in components.

A sporting image began to appear from about 1925, leading to models such as the Hyper and the Ace of Spades. The Hyper (also called the S-type) was the first British supercharged production car with a 1.5 litre Meadows engine, and in 1928 a Lea-Francis Hyper won the Ulster TT, a 30-lap race on the 13.5-mile (21.7 km) Ards circuit on the roads of Northern Ireland in the hands of legendary race car driver, Kaye Don.