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Stewart
As always, thanks very much for the photos and especially for the information.

I wouldn't say that there is an excess of information out there, but at the same time it is certainly many thousand times quicker than the old days of writing letters, or waiting until 2 in the morning to make very expensive phone calls to other parts of the globe. How far we have come.

Aside from re-assembling it and locating the missing parts, the only other changes envisioned at this time are to install a sidecar fender lamp (if applicable....still waiting for more data), adding the arm rests to the sides of the sidecar, and possibly a new floor in the sidecar. The thin metal there is really starting to show it's age. Perhaps those who have climbed into it in the past decade or two tend to be a bit heavier than the builders intended back in the 1940s.

The bike is missing the speedometer and the cover over the instruments, however I note that the speedometer alone is well over $1200 Cdn these days, so we'll possibly have to wait until a funding surplus presents itself.

After seeing the drawings on the Jerry Greer site, I have to check the chain length to the generator. I note the present cover over it does not allow the generator to tighten up fully, and the chain has worn into the driving end housing. It would appear that the cover may be incorrect, as it does not seem to mount the same way as the ones illustrated on his site. I'll see of the present cover has the right dimensions.

I like to keep about 3 projects going at once so I can make better determinations as to what is correct, rather than plowing full steam ahead on one project and wasting efforts towards incorrect restoration. Hopefully by the spring I can report here that the bike is "back in service".