Motorcycle ID

[Keith Webb]

Just been scanning some interesting negatives taken by a pilot of 455 squadron RAAF which operated Beaufighter X operating out of Dallachy in Scotland.

Many of the images covered other interesting subjects, one of which is pictured here.



Any idea as to the type?

BTW The place name is a beaut isn't it?

[Keith Webb]

This was once a Mustang, an early B model which appears to have hit the ground with little forward speed. Hopefully the pilot bailed out successfully.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Just been scanning some interesting negatives taken by a pilot of 455 squadron RAAF which operated Beaufighter X operating out of Dallachy in Scotland.

Many of the images covered other interesting subjects, one of which is pictured here.



Any idea as to the type?

BTW The place name is a beaut isn't it?

Keith..
The exhaust and handle bars and hand brake look 350 CC Matchless..41G.3.L..
But the front forks,kick starter,front light and black out are wrong..
That kick starts screams "BRIT!!!!!!"..
Could be Norton or Triumph or BSA...Do Guesses count??
It is NOT a 350CC Matchless...This is....

Originally posted by Keith Webb

Many of the images covered other interesting subjects, one of which is pictured here.


Any idea as to the type?

BTW The place name is a beaut isn't it?

Well its East Anglia:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...1388&ay=329909
taken on a back road just south of Briston looking at the map.

East Anglia was of course covered with airfields and it looks like a RAF uniform.

The photo is a little over contrasted but we can fix that, looks like a hand-change, side-valve single and the silencer is typical of a Sunbeam. Ballard snr would know but he's just gone home; I'll have him look later.

R.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Keith Webb

Any idea as to the type?

BTW The place name is a beaut isn't it?

Keith,

Photo taken at the top end of Norfolk, very early wartime because road signs were removed early on.

The motorcycle was registered in West Sussex, not sure but think it is a BSA B23 35occ sidevalve

Richard

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Any idea as to the type?

Well, can't identify it from a trawl around the classic Brit bike sites on the net, the silencer could be early Norton and the hand-change should be a clue but has led to a dead-end.

The registration listings though give PO + 4 digits as West Sussex C.C. and issued 1929 - 1934 only, so it has to be a model of those years.

R.

[Keith Webb]

Thanks for all the fascinating info - you people would make good detectives...

Here's a simple one (I hope). The car is of course a Singer, but what can you tell me about the number plate?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Here's a simple one (I hope). The car is of course a Singer, but what can you tell me about the number plate?

Keith,

Singer registered at Doncaster County Borough Council, South Yorkshire.

As a matter of interest, in the village where I work, there is a specialist who restores these types of Singers and quite often they are seen out on road test.

Richard

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
Keith,

Singer registered at Doncaster County Borough Council, South Yorkshire.

1927 - 1938 for two letter plates, sometime in '38 they started on ADT + 3 figs.

R.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The motorcyle was registered in February 1931. Singer June 1934.