classic motorcycle forum

Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: kdenney on September 19, 2012, 01:18:24 AM

Title: need help identifying a gearbox
Post by: kdenney on September 19, 2012, 01:18:24 AM

Can anyone identify this gear box? It is a 4 speed and appears to have both the kick start and the gear shift on the left hand side.

Title: Re: need help identifying a gearbox
Post by: Stephen Foster on September 19, 2012, 07:44:24 AM

Looks like Burman ?
Could have been fitted to a Panther or Norton ?

Title: Re: need help identifying a gearbox
Post by: cardan on September 19, 2012, 10:51:24 AM

Pretty weird really - it's hard to think of bikes which used a separate gearbox with drive on the right and gearchange and ks on the left. Many of the "back to front" European bikes with the drive on the right used unit construction power plants.

One possibility that comes to mind is a post-WW2 "vertical" Indian. http://www.indian-motorcycles.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=538

Good luck!

Leon

Title: Re: need help identifying a gearbox
Post by: kdenney on September 20, 2012, 03:05:03 PM

You were exactly right!!!!!! This gear box is from a 1949 Indian Scout.  Thanks