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    BSA Para Bike info Needed!

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    On 11/19/2022 at 8:51 PM, Le Prof said:

    Hi Chris @sirhc

    Thanks for sharing your number, I appreciate it.

    I make that R21005. Here's a screen shot to give you an idea of what I'm doing:

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    The points recorded above are the serial number, the frame tpe (early twin tube, or later single tube), the original colour, (brown or green), the colour of the undercoat (almost always black, one red example)), the frame hingre (most are cast metal, the very earliest are angle iron), the wingnut (most are smooth, a small number BSA marked), the tommy bar on the handlebar nut. Early ones are welded onto the nut, later, most common 'standard' go through the nut.  And finally, the pedal arm reinforcement. Erly ones are just straight (No), later ones have a boss on the arm end to help support the pedal peg.

    If you can supply any of these details it will be further help, thanks.

    Your bike is a quite early single seat tube (so called second pattern) version. The early ones were painted brown, and yours is bracketed by original brown ones, but is within 100 frames of a known original green, so it could have been brown originally, or one of the first green ones of the second pattern.

    The serial number has the characteristic oversize 2 used at this point.

    It would have the early pedal arms with no boss.

    It also occurs just before a very small number that were fitted with BSA marked wingnuts on the frame

    Pin on BSA PARA

    BSA marked wingnut, cast hinge.

     

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    Photo Credit, Enigma. Later pedal arm with boss to support pedal peg.

    If I can help further, please let me know.

    Best Regards,

    Adrian

     

    Hi Adrian, another point to note, are that there are 2x types of bottom bracket. One type and the most common is the cast type, the other is the down tube welded directly to the bottom bracket.

    You can see the difference in the pictures below,

     Regards Gary

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    identifying a Matchless 41/G3L motorcycle

    in Motorcycles

    Posted

    I also have a G3/G3L variant, bought in Normandy, seller had originally got it from the Le Mans area, it has a G3 rear frame end, gearbox and chain guard but the front half is G3L, the frame and engine numbers had been modified I believe for civilian registration and so untraceable by the army. I have presumed the rear half  was from an abandoned G3, at the time of Dunkirk and then used and left by the Germans 1944, taken to a vehicle dump  where somebody acquired the remains of the G3 along with the remains of a G3L and out of the two wrecks put themselves together a bike.

    identifying a Matchless 41/G3L motorcycle

    in Motorcycles

    Posted

    Hello Claude,

    yes, the bike might have been rebuilt by an Army workshop and any of the above combinations could have happened.

    More photos of the bike would help identify what it is made up of, there are better Matchless experts here who will be able to help.

    Regards Gary  

    W+P 2022 ?

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    There wouldn't be a rich person needed to fork out money necessarily, W&P had approx 500x  stalls, paying £250 each = £125,000, this would go a long way to financing a show, of course the difference of the early W&P shows to the later ones, was the need to bring in Heras fencing, security, better toilets/showers etc.  When any event grows, so do the outlays, problems and many other unseen hazards to having many 1000's of people in one place.

    For vehicle owners and re-enactors who make up the show, to be asked for a small contribution to the event is not that unreasonable also, especially when you look at what has been on offer in the evenings, in the way of free entertainment and of course better facilities (especially if you are there for 5x days +).

    Perhaps the biggest problem is finding somewhere to hold the show,  everybody wants it near to them but W&P has always attracted our continental neighbours, being close to the ferry ports and this has also added to the richness of the show. 

        

    W+P 2022 ?

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    47 minutes ago, snowdrop358 said:

    I think that a big part of the problem is that the management / PR team can't or won't engage with the very people it's relying on. For example, Capel came in for some criticism for banning any German WW2 representations. Instead of hiding and turning off comments, they actively engaged and explained why they had taken the decisions that they had. I don't go to Capel, nor do I reenact but I appreciated the fact that there was an open discussion about it.  I would suggest that W&P could really do with some positive PR at this point, all that's required is to engage and be honest, surely? 

    If there is no German representation at Capel, what/who will the battle re-enactments be between ?

    W+P 2022 ?

    in War & Peace show.

    Posted

    I have attended the W&P show as a once a year seller for more than 25x years, I’ve always considered it a holiday as well as making a little pocket money to put back into my hobby. The organisers rang me to see I would like my normal pitch, at a cost of £350, £100 more than normal and what would be considered a late bookers fee, I did mention when I tried to book last November to meet their 2022 deadline that they were closed, I was told that was unfortunate but if I wanted to come it would have to be at the £350 price, I politely declined. When I factor in the cost of a weeks van hire and fuel, that would now mean an outlay of over £600 before I even got to the show. I will miss going and everybody I know there but on the plus I get back 9x days of my life to go and do something else this year.

     

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    RYPA tank gunnery training platform.

    in I may be stupid, but......

    Posted

    I have heard that there is a tank training turret in Badby woods, an area that was used for tank training during WW2, see note below. I stayed at Fawsley Hall last year and one of the staff recalled the story of an out of control tank, that ended up in the lake of the Hall during the war.

    Badby Badby Woods Northamptonshire  World War 2 TROOP TRAINING AREA Badby woods and the Fawsley area were used for tank training. A tank turret trainer used for the training of tank crews during World War II. Currently in a poor condition

    Dunkirk 80 years ago ww2. This week i will add some of my original Dunkirk photos.

    in Archaeology - WW1 to the end of the cold war

    Posted

    18 hours ago, Le Prof said:

    Hi @Morris C8 Keith.

    I put some time into trying to trace this, without success, except to say it is in Paris.

    This time it is not a needle in a haystack, but a needle in a pile of needles, with some missing.

    Café  Biard was a chain of Parisian coffee shops. There were 15 or so in 1900, and far more by 1940. This article explains more:

    https://www.parisladouce.com/2021/07/ancien-cafe-biard-de-la-rue-montorgueil.html

    I checked the addresses listed, there were a couple that looked promising, but the Hausmanian architecture of Paris is all very similar, and I could see detail differences on the building across the road each time. Also, roads like Ave de Sevres have been heavily redeveloped. Finally, I searched for period postcards, and that threw up even more addresses, so I admit defeat.

    Best Regards,

    Adrian

    What is the building/shape above and to the right of the vehicles ?

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