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  1. Indeed, this is the "universal" Smiths speedo, as used by all WD bikes from 1941 (approx) onwards.
  2. Just noticed that the second WW2 picture has a "beeldbank" watermark. Which means that it was taken in Holland, not Italy...
  3. I do have a Gruppo Velox article in a French 1950's magazine somewhere... Let me have a look...
  4. This Italian job Matchless G3/L was for sale in Beaulieu (2012).
  5. For as far as I know the C/13948 bikes were made in Meriden, but I'm sure somebody will correct me when I'm wrong on this one. This contract was split up in a RASC batch (3366 bikes, census numbers C886687 - C890052), and a RAOC batch (2129 bikes, census numbers C4852001 - C4854129). Unfortunately, because of this split up, it is impossible to calculate the census number for a given frame number. The two pictures below show a bike (with an experimental side car) from the RASC batch. And here's another one, could be Italy:
  6. And another one: Did you know that the Italians had some engine tuning kits as well? The most famous one is Gruppo Velox:
  7. Here's another elastic by the way... Well, this contraption is French, so it should be "élastique" 🤣
  8. Is it a contract C/13948 bike? In that case the census number can't be calculated. If it's a later contract bike we can calculate the census number which is based on the frame number. We may find a war time picture of your bike in Italy, or one that is close.
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  11. The picture with the Clynos is well known, but I hadn't seen the other one yet...
  12. You seem to have a clutch unit without the typical cush drive. I've also got one here, see picture below. On the right you can see the cush drive version, as fitted to the WD/CO. I don't know where the non-cash drive version comes from. Albion gearboxes were used on all sorts of machinery, maybe this is a non-Enfield clutch? Anyway, when I compare both clutches, apart from the cush drive, they are identical. They should be interchangeable. Unless it's got less plates than the Enfield cush drive version. That could explain the fact that your clutch is slipping...? As for the fact that the clutch disengages as soon as you've pulled the lever a couple of millimeters, are you sure that the "clutch operating pad" (pos. 20) and the operating rod have the correct length? Have you tried to unscrew the "clutch operating lever adjusting screw and nut" (pos. 22)?
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  14. A wilde guess: Francis Barnet "built like a bridge"...? The bike in the picture below is different, but could it be a later model?
  15. Still the same unfortunately...
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  17. It is indeed strange that the webmaster / moderators haven't posted anything yet. Looks as if the Russians or the Chinese have taken over... 😡Think they are very interested in military vehicles, but they haven't realised yet that this forum is all about old material. 😄
  18. Same complaints here in Belgium. HMVF is now littered with publicity banners left, right, top, bottom and in-between posts as well. I'm using Safari, but just gave it a try on Chrome, and it's the same.
  19. The WD/C needs 3 pints of oil, the WD/CO needs 4 (due to the extended oil compartiment in the crankcases).
  20. This picture (and similar pictures) appear in every Wehrmacht album. It is well known within the May 1940 fraternity.
  21. It's actually Hazebrouck town square...
  22. Nice postcard, taken during the "siege of Antwerp" at the trainstation in Ghent. From Wikipedia: The siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during World War I. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area, after the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914. The city, which was ringed by forts known as the National Redoubt, was besieged to the south and east by German forces. The Belgian forces in Antwerp conducted three sorties in late September and early October, which interrupted German plans to send troops to France, where reinforcements were needed to counter the French armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). A German bombardment of the Belgian fortifications with heavy and super-heavy artillery began on 28 September. The Belgian garrison had no hope of victory without relief; despite the arrival of the Royal Naval Division beginning on 3 October, the Germans penetrated the outer ring of forts. When the German advance began to compress a corridor from the west of the city along the Dutch border to the coast, through which the Belgians at Antwerp had maintained contact with the rest of unoccupied Belgium, the Belgian Field Army commenced a withdrawal westwards towards the coast. On 9 October, the remaining garrison surrendered, the Germans occupied the city and some British and Belgian troops escaped to the Netherlands to the north and were interned for the duration of the war. Belgian troops from Antwerp withdrew to the Yser river, close to the French border and dug in, to begin the defence of the last unoccupied part of Belgium and fought the Battle of the Yser against the German 4th Army in October and November 1914. The Belgian Army held the area until late in 1918, when it participated in the Allied liberation of Belgium.[a]
  23. Poelkapelle. The Germans scrapped the tank, but a couple of years ago a local history group made a replica: https://tankpoelcapelle.be/en/home
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