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Few more: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25384/lot/208/ https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/triumph-1936-250-cc-1-cyl-ohv/ https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/triumph-1939-t80-1-cyl-350-cc-ohv/ https://www.roncobb.com/Tri3Smilitary.html And there's one on this page if you do a text search (ctrl+F) http://www.archifdy-ceredigion.org.uk/vehiclesdb.php?dbsearch=Cardigan&dbsearchfunc=dbsearch

Ooh - just found another one: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23602/lot/121/ This isn't the one I'd already seen.

Hi Ron and Pawel, yes I kind of thought it was a part number - but because it's so close to the frame number it's caused a lot of confusion - and as many WD bikes were registered after their service people just looked under the saddle as instructed, saw the number and assumed it was the frame number. It's caused considerable confusion. My bike is not a military restoration at all. It looked like the yellowy photo when I bought it, I got it working (two blue photos) and took it to Coupe Moto Legende in Dijon about four years ago, where, due to poor maintenance, the back wheel came loose causing me to fall off. After that I did an engine strip, had a new crank pin made by Godden Engineering, and powder-coated the bike black. Now it looks like the bottom photo. I decided to keep it looking a little similar to its grass track days with it's tiny oil and fuel tanks. It looks (and is) very light and bicycle-like. It's just an entry level classic bike really for days out riding with friends. But I thought you'd like to be aware of its existence.

Hello. I have just registered on this site. I have a Triumph 3SW bitsa. I obtained an age related plate for it using the following info from the VMCC who had military contract cards: Contract number C6128, starting 25 January 1940 for 1000 Solo 350SV from frame number TL17300 to 18299 and engine numbers from 40-3SW-34401 to 35400, contact complete 13 August 1940. My bike is TL18175 g/box TE-31560 and belonged for some time to a speedway rider named George Basson who turned it into a grasstracker with, I believe, a 250 JAP engine made from parts (it has an engine number on each crank case). The bike appears to have original forks, gearbox and rear wheel, but the engine, petrol and oil tanks, saddle, mudguards are non-original. The gearbox had no kickstart but I have since fitted one. Thought the information might be useful to someone. Incidentally there was another number F1630 stamped on the saddle lug on my bike as well as the Frame number. I have seen this number referred to as the frame number on at least three other bikes as well as my own. There is definitely one bike, possibly a 1937 250, T70 maybe, registered on the road with this as its frame number. I saw another one in a Bonhams advert and it's referred to as the military test machine frame number for the 3S in the Orchard/Madden book. Someone suggested it might be a casting number but it's definitely a stamp done post casting.