A trip into the unknown? (UPDATEs: more LSD)

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Very addictive and no prediction how it will affect you. That’s LSD for you. And we don’t mean the colourless, odourless and tasteless stuff that causes a lot of trouble. No, in this case it’s this colourful, smoking and tasty 1922 L.S.D. cyclecar, recently bought by Mike Tebbett. The initials L.S.D. stand for Harry Longbottom the designer, Sykes and Sugden the manufacturers, and Dyson the accountant. The Yorkshire make, made from 1920 until 1924, distinguished itself from other three-wheelers in having a reverse gear. Mike’s L.S.D. seems complete and in fair order, except that it has an incorrect single cylinder 500cc JAP instead of a side-valve JAP V-twin. Mike would like to hear from anyone who recognises this L.S.D. and especially about a mysterious man in East Anglia or Norfolk, who is reputed to hold a cache of brand new spares for the make! Can we trace this treasure? Tell us!

Update III Luc Ryckaert came up with this original LSD poster that is hanging in his kitchen!
Update II comes from Paul Linster about a LSD in the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield. The museum explains the name LSD as coming from the English currency at the time and was used to emphasise the pounds, shillings and pence that the owner could save driving the LSD.
Update I by Fons Alkemade who reports that there’s a 1923 LSD with the correct V-twin JAP engine in the Dutch Louwman Collection.

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