Ron

Nice one Jan. Only real difference I notice, is Ben's top shelf of the number plate is angled down to meet the original holes?: I had to bend it down which doesn't seem right. But the plate and the holes are original, apart from it being all bent and twisted when I received it and I never saw it attached to the bike originally......Anyone got a picture? .....Out of interest.  Ron

Even better with the back mudguard fitted.

I think I need to concentrate on finishing the wiring next!  Ron

Cracking on now! I've been building up the rear end, clutch and primary drive. It's been taking a while to work out which nuts and bolts go where. Ron

I've been building up the front end and apart from the clutch cable, all the controls and cables are installed.  Ron

Well my area of interest is mainly war time. I don't know of a 620cc at all. Just the 700cc meteor and constellation from the 50's.

Maybe you should make enquirers with the Royal Enfield Owners Club who will have archive records of all models. Ron 

PS. Picture. Ron

The Constellation was a 700cc twin with tele forks from the late 50's. onward.  Ron

Yes the WD/L is 570cc Graham. But I'm not sure what you're asking about that is 700cc. Are you talking about a military bike? Most of these bikes will need a decompressor and timing retarded for normal starting.  Ron 

Spent time over the last two days, sorting out what goes where and assembling parts.  As has been discussed in an earlier post, these first WD/C's had dull chrome or nickel parts and Ben went for nickel. Inevitably some fixings will be missing  not least the metric nuts and bolts that I threw away. These will have to be replaced with cad nuts and bolts from my own stock. Ron 

The plating is back and very nice it looks too! I've got some serious sorting out to do with this lot now. Ron

It's probably a bit less than 1/4", but once I realized they were different I couldn't use the original line as an exact reference.  I wondered if it's a discrepancy during the assembly of the tanks. Or is it that Ben's tank has spread a bit? Some bikes do have a support bar underneath the tank to stop that happening.  I really can't imagine that there were different fuel pipes. A blooming good job that I checked it and did a trial fit to Ben's tank, as it would be impossible to stretch it at all.  Ron

Well as it happens Rik, I have this bike on the bench for a couple of jobs which has an original fuel line, which I removed and copied. But I had to adjust the width between the taps as there is about 1/4" discrepancy between the bikes. I tinned most of it, but couldn't get it to stick on the brass T piece and gave up for fear of melting the solder. So cold zinc spay on that which will probably wash of in time......Hey Ho. Something Ben can do better in the future if he's bothered.  Ron

Soldering three pipes into a T piece without a proper jig or fixture is tedious.  Ron

I've been rummaging through my box of old petrol pipe fittings and made a collection of this little lot, in the hope of making a reasonable looking WD/C fuel pipe.  Ron

That is often the case Adrian, as per that wiring diagram. But the bulbs shown in the post on Sunday are actually twin filament. Which is something you don't see very often with the small globe. I guess you'd have to do some hunting to find them, or hope that a standard stop/tail bulb fits in the housing. Ron

Ian, the one in your picture is wrong. Here are a couple of pix of mine  that I have on file. (as shown in the parts list) It's a rod threaded at both ends (3/8" from memory) and an eye screwed on at the front for adjustment. 'Ace Classics' sell some of the special slotted 'P' clips but you would need to check the tube size against the ones they sell. Or mill a slot in a standard clip.  Ron

For added info. There is no BS paint code for Khaki Green..... Service Brown is BS 499 and Olive Drab is BS 298. 

I think that's a post war Butlers lamp.  Ron

Quite right Richard. I just looked at mine, and it's made by Flexible Lamps Ltd.  Ron

Yes you are right! As this original pictures shows, a Lucas Rubberlite bolted to the right side of the body. As you can see, I have more adequate lights fitted, but I do have a NOS Rubberlite with original cable, so I might as well fit it and just wire it into the others.  Regards Ron

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TL 56299 is the 2882nd bike from the very last 3HW contract (S6680) which was originally for 8000 bikes but reduced to 5200. I calculate the tank census number to be 'C6104299'

For some reason the Triumph engine number sequence at that time was 10,000 ahead of the frame numbers and the engine fitted to yours at the factory should have been 66299.(effectively matching numbers)  Yours is a slightly later engine from the same contract and I'm not aware that Triumph ever despatched them with un-matched numbers? But lots of engine swaps in REME workshops etc. (They just fitted the next rebuilt engine off the shelf)

Most of us will never know where our bikes served or with what unit, but I guess a post war stint in the middle or far east does seem plausible. I'm quite sure the bike would have left the factory in service colour ('British Olive drab' by then) any other paint scheme (desert, RN, RAF etc) would probably have been performed at local workshops.  

Plenty more knowledgeable guys out there to chip in.  Ron  

How much are those lamps Adrian? Maybe send two to me in UK for me and Guy. I'll meet up with him at some point.

Ron

Yes that's exactly what I did at the front of my Morris and Austin Tilly. I soldered wires to 'Stop/tail-light' bulbs and mounted them inside my original sidelights. At least with no MOT's these days, there's no one to criticize them flashing white. However, both vehicles have amber indicators at the rear.   Ron

36 minutes ago, wally dugan said:

The lens of the wartime tail light is three quarters of a inch in DIA

Cheers Wally. That will save me measuring mine

Ron

Right Andy, the axle flood lamp with the 'B' prefix is the Butler type as my NOS lamp, which are easier to find than the 'L' Lucas type.  Ron