Vincent Black Prince example of both the model and the marque left the production line on Friday, 16 December 1955. A 1955 Vincent Black Prince set a new auction world record for the model at Bonham's Summer Classic Sale of Motorcycles and Motorcars in June 2014, selling for £91,100. In 2018, a Vincent Black Lightning, stated to be one of only 19 surviving, set an absolute world record for the highest-price paid for a motorcycle in an auction held by Bonhams at Las Vegas, selling for $US929,000 ($1.16 million Australian). Vincent Black Prince The Vincent Black Prince was a British motorcycle made between
Black Prince (rocket) Black Prince (rocket) Black Prince was a proposed British-led satellite expendable launch system. It would have made heavy use of the preceding Blue Streak missile and the Black Knight test rocket development programmes, as well as some new elements, to produce a British-built launcher capable of deploying medium-sized payloads into orbit. Popularly known as the Black Prince due to its assigned rainbow code, in official documentation, the platform was referred to as the "Blue Streak Satellite Launch Vehicle" (BSSLV). The Black Prince originated from various ballistic missile programmes that were being conducted by the United Kingdom during the 1950s. As