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Great Uncle Ben's 1920's bike...any ideas?

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sadbrewer:
Hi all...I'm wondering if anyone can ID this bike from a poor photo, I appreciate it's hard to make out but on looking at it for hours it appears to have an acetylene headlight, hand change on the tank and possibly a single pushrod engine... JAP?
   Any thoughts or clues would be appreciated.

Bear640:
I,d put $20 on it that’s it’s an AJS?   Dunno...

R:
Well thats an interesting one, nothing very common I suspect.

Front lower mounted magneto and a front brake can only make it mid to later 1920s,
and what looks to be either both pushrods in a single tube, or maybe even ohc make it one of a very select field.
Which I can't quite put a name to at this stage, although it looks familiar.

Calthorpe ?
Certainly the engine could be in the same family, although the details are not entirely a good match ?


We will see if it jumps out at someone...

mini-me:
WU reg april 1926 to feb 1927 which narrows it age a bit

Yorkshire reg office

JimD:
I think its a Calthorpe.

Cheers
Jim

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