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You are right L.A.B. forgot about the single but assuming he has an A65 why would you change from positive earth to negative earth what would be the benefit if any.

Just for info the pass slip is valid for 2 years from the date of test, after that you have to take another test.

My late father in the late fifties changed from a motorcycle combination to a Bond minicar it had 3. 8"wheels one in front and 2 at the rear was powered by a Villiers 250cc single engine over the front wheel. It had electric start but if that failed you could lift the bonnet up put your foot in and kick it over on the kickstart, it also had 3 forward gears and a reverse which was not a gear but was electrical it turned the engine backwards. With this method you could drive with a motorcycle licence. He did not have it for very long as it was always breaking down it would constantly keep shearing the woodfruff key on the mainshaft along with the brakes constantly seizing up.

Putting your request into google it came up with a reply that the frame number should on the H cast frame around the seat mounting pillar hope this helps.

Lights similar to that used to be fitted to 1940's and 1950's car front wings.

Get yourself  copies of the workshop manual and spare parts numbers for your particular year as BSA made quite a few modifications over the life of the A50 and A65 twins so that when you order any parts you will get the correct ones for your bike. As the previous replies have indicated if the bike is all there get it running first then consider modifications and updates.

Agree with what you say sub.sonic, I served my time as a sheet metal worker from 1958 -1963 and was fortunate to be taken on by a small company that gave me a good grounding in all aspects of sheet metal work using lots of different sheet metals. I left that company in 1964 and went on to a huge multinational company and stayed there until I retired. It is true that a lot of the old skills are being lost not just in sheet metal work I noticed in my time at work that most companies would train apprentices in the skills that were required for that company so that what you have now is people that are highly skilled in a particular field but do not have all round skills, sign of the times. Excellent work that you have turned out can admire the work that has gone into making those items but sadly you are competing with the Indian sub continent with their cheap labour, I did buy a tank made by them from a UK supplier, at first glance I was quite pleased with the tank the chrome was of a good standard the tank was perfect fit for the bike matched perfectly with the original but it had the pear shaped badges and while the recess for the badges was okay the fixing hole did not align with the badges and you cannot alter either, also when I looked inside the tank it had been painted with some kind of red primer paint. On inspection with a torch you could clearly see that this was done to hide some very bad pitting of the metal, I sent the tank back and received a full refund and apology from the UK supplier. On checking with other sites those Indian made tanks or quite a hit and miss thing some people are getting really good tanks and others quite bad ones with a variety of problems.