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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: peterpajaro on March 01, 2011, 04:07:51 PM

Title: Re-posting_Identify this bike (pre-war?)
Post by: peterpajaro on March 01, 2011, 04:07:51 PM

Can anyone help identify this bike (hopefully the photo is attached this time). Photo found in an old family album. A guess at the year would be really helpful too!

Title: Re: Re-posting_Identify this bike (pre-war?)
Post by: cardan on March 01, 2011, 09:41:06 PM

I wonder if it's a 350cc OHV Humber from about 1928; much like this one http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1928-humber-350-ohv/

The only doubt I have is about the long exhaust port on the head - notice that the exhaust pipe fastens to the head almost past the front frame tube. This doesn't seem to be the design of the 1929 model http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/humber-350cc-ohv-1929/ . Did Humber have a radical redesign of their heads around 1928?

Leon

Title: Re: Re-posting_Identify this bike (pre-war?)
Post by: peterpajaro on March 02, 2011, 08:01:34 PM

Thanks Leon for your input. Looking at the photos that you posted it seems to me that the Humber is a good bet so i'm going with that unless I hear different. Thanks for your time and effort. Much appreciated.
Peter

Title: Re: Re-posting_Identify this bike (pre-war?)
Post by: Dirt_Track on May 09, 2011, 07:20:06 AM

G'day all
Leon is spot on......Humber all the way.
Howard.