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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: scrz on August 27, 2005, 06:53:43 AM

Title: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: scrz on August 27, 2005, 06:53:43 AM

This photgraph was taken in 1944 can anyone identify the motorcycle?

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: L.A.B. on August 27, 2005, 07:21:16 AM

Definitely a Royal Enfield, and I think that it is a side valve 350cc WD/C model.

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: scrz on August 28, 2005, 06:24:18 AM

Thank you

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: TriSpec on September 02, 2005, 06:37:10 PM

Yes, Model as L.A.B. suggests. One of 2,000 supplied under contract C6125 in 1940.

Peter C.

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: VintageBike on September 05, 2005, 02:35:01 AM

Hi scrz,

do you mind if I add this photo to the Period Pictures Gallery?  Do you know who is riding the bike and where it was taken? A little bit of history makes the picture so much more interesting.
Let me know.
Cheers
Nigel.

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: scrz on October 31, 2006, 01:21:33 AM

Sorry for taking so long to answer.
Yes use the photograph.
It was taken in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The soldier is from a Welsh regiment and the photograph was taken a few days before D-Day. I have another photograph of his two mates.two of the three were killed in action in France a few days or weeks later. I don't know which one of the three survived.
The person who give me the photograph was only about 8 or 9 years old at the time, he said the army were camped across the road from his house for months and these three came to his house quite often for tea. He got up one morning and the whole camp was gone, the family got word a few weeks later of their deaths.

Title: Re: Motorcycle c.1944
Post by: VintageBike on November 05, 2006, 03:51:47 PM

Many thanks.  I've posted the picture and the story in the Royal Enfield gallery.

Regards

Nigel.