Need Help, HRG Identify

[SportCityRider]

I need help to find out more of this bike

[33d6]

I can't get you photos to come up so can't see what the bike is. As there have been no other replies perhaps everyone else is having the same problem. Can you send them through again?
Cheers,

[SportCityRider]

Hummm Odd works for me just fine

Here we are

[SportCityRider]

and another few
I have no informatin on these bike at all

[L.A.B.]

Hummm Odd works for me just fine

That's because you are, apparently, a member of the Sportcityrider website, and are logged in?
For the rest of us who are not members, access to the images is through the Sportcityrider log in page, and that's why the photos don't show.

The second time you uploaded the images directly to Vintagebike, so now we can all see them.  

[SportCityRider]

Hummm Odd works for me just fine

That's because you are, apparently, a member of the Sportcityrider website, and are logged in?
For the rest of us who are not members, access to the images is through the Sportcityrider log in page, and that's why the photos don't show.

The second time you uploaded the images directly to Vintagebike, so now we can all see them.  

odd.. I have visitors capable of viewing  no matter

[L.A.B.]

odd.. I have visitors capable of viewing  no matter

Probably because those visitors are viewing the images as part of a Sportcityrider web page, not direct image links?

This is as far as the failed links takes me at Sportcityrider:
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[SportCityRider]

thanks, that is odd, I did validate permissions  :-/

[L.A.B.]

I think it's quite common for this to happen when a website requires its members to log in, in order to gain full access?  

[SportCityRider]

Yes, I checked the permissions on guest, they have rights to view this.  I think it may have something to do with vbSEO or I am overlooking something.

Hey at least its keeping this post alive LOL

Thanks brother, appreciate it  

[33d6]

Well, after all the discussion back and forth we all have some photos to look at.
It's very interesting isn't it.
I have no idea who made it but it has all the hallmarks of a one off special.
It looks like a DOHC arrangement but certainly nothing from any commercial manufacturer.
I think what you have is exactly what it says, a HRG and my deepest respects to the builder. I admire people who can build their own engines. So far my biggest effort in own engine building is a single cylinder three port two stroke and that was more sweat blood and tears than I care to remember. To build something like the HRG is monumental.
Cheers,  

[Searchguru]

SportCityRider,

For some reason HRG was familiar to me as I seem to remember seeing HRG at Goodwood a few years back.

HRG in Wikipedia brings up the details of the company thus:
"HRG (HRG Engineering Company Ltd) was a British car manufacturer based in Tolworth, Surrey, and founded by E.A. Halford, Guy Robins and Henry Ronald Godfrey in 1936. It took its name from the first letter of their surnames."

It's handy that Mr Godfrey's initials are the same as well. Maybe he was the majority shareholder?
Now my experience of the gospel according to Wikinonsense is that it is always right, so we must be in the right ball park.

There seems to be quite a following, though it appears that more cars were modified than bikes.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge of Brit engines and frames can help you with what it is based on (I'm thinking Norton Featherbed frame and a Triumph twin as it was probably the best combination).

Contact mailto:hrgsec@pcmitchell.com who may be able to point you in a more fruitful direction for info on bikes.
Tony B.

[SportCityRider]

Thanks for the reply's.  It is interesting that IMO nothing to me is recognizable from a engine perspective or frame.  Its obvious the main or eye cather is the Cam/heads.

Thanks for the email,

[L.A.B.]

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of Brit engines and frames can help you with what it is based on (I'm thinking Norton Featherbed frame and a Triumph twin as it was probably the best combination).

The frame certainly appears to be a Norton Featherbed from a standard road model?