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Help identify Coventry Eagle, 1928 or 1929?
Micke:
--- Quote from: cardan on August 03, 2018, 12:51:41 AM ---Hi Michael,
Nice project.
We seem to talk about Coventry Eagles quite a lot here: use the search box at the top to have a look at older discussions. For example have a look at http://classicmotorcycleforum.com/index.php?topic=5610 where we discussed 1928-29-30 models.
42529 as a Coventry Eagle frame number seems to be more 1928 than 1929, and your frame is of the earlier type with the gearbox mounted from the top, and bolt-on stays from the bottom of the gearbox plates to the lugs dangling down from the frame near the rear axle.
The 1928 models at the Olympia Show in October 1927 included a sports 350 to this spec. The attached illustration from The Motor Cycle shows the 500 - a bit different from your bike with curved front down tube and Brampton (?) fork. But note comments in earlier discussions about Cov Eagle - small firm with varying specification that depended on what old stuff was lying around the factory at the time.
Cheers
Leon
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Thanks alot for this info and the picture! I’ve read the older thread (and I will try the search function next time). I’ve spent some time studying the frame and I’m pretty sure its a 1928, model D, I have. The model E or 1929 seems to be the first bike with the 30’s look. The frame differs alot in angle between the lower and upper frame pipes near the rear wheel. There is also a second headstock support tube from the lower part of the headstock casting back horizontally to the upper main tube (under the tank) on model F or 1930. I’m not sure if the 1929 had this.
So, my engine is perhaps too new for this bike so if anyone is selling a top without the rocker cover, I’m buying it :)
Is ”The Motor cycle” anywhere on the internet?
Cheers!
/Michael
chaterlea25:
Hi Micke,
--- Quote ---if anyone is selling a top without the rocker cover, I’m buying it
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I think you mean the "dog ear" type head ?
They are rare and very expensive
Pete's bike's had a complete engine at Stafford in April. http://www.petesbikes.co.uk/
I would not it it worry me about the engine date, the J.A.P 1929 year production started in August /September 1928
Who knows what CE threw together for export ::) ::)
John
Micke:
--- Quote from: chaterlea25 on August 03, 2018, 10:18:39 PM ---Hi Micke,
--- Quote ---if anyone is selling a top without the rocker cover, I’m buying it
--- End quote ---
I think you mean the "dog ear" type head ?
They are rare and very expensive
Pete's bike's had a complete engine at Stafford in April. http://www.petesbikes.co.uk/
I would not it it worry me about the engine date, the J.A.P 1929 year production started in August /September 1928
Who knows what CE threw together for export ::) ::)
John
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Thanks John. No not the dog ear engine. Just a pre 1929 350 ohv cylinder head without the rocker cover plate and 1 port, should look something like the one in the attached pic!
Cheers!
chaterlea25:
Hi Micke,
I know the big v twins with the external plates bolted to the cast in rocker pillars are referreed to as "dog ear"
But I would have always considered the engine in the linked pic as a dog ear,
Anyway what I wrote earlier still stands, mucho £,$,€, SEK !!!
That is the type of engine for sale in the link I gave you, (not sure id single port?)
I have not seen another one for sale in 30 years!!!
Some years ago I found such a head and remembered that there was someone on this forum looking for one
I put it with the rest of an early 30's 350 engine and sold it to the advertiser
You need to source a lot more parts for the project bike, do not get hung up on finding the engine parts, but work with what you have and get the bike completed, blank off the left exhaust port if you only want to fit a single pipe.
There is no point is chasing an image in a photo of someone else's bike, without strong proof how do you know what was supplied 90 years ago
Catalogs were only a guide, production by small manufacturers (especially)varied quite a lot from the catalog images
John
Rex:
At the other end of the C-E scale my dad used to talk about a Silent Superb he had before the war, and on which him and his mate used to ride to railway breakdowns on the IOW.
He said that it wasn't uncommon for the cylinder and pipe to glow red on a night run but the little feller never let them down.
Clearing stuff after he died the old RF60 log book turned up. Sadly the bike was long gone..
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