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Agree with 33d6, NO .... VILLIERS motor cycles in Vic. Police Book........... but a few mentions of Villiers powered ones as you say.  However as a matter of interest that book was probably the one put out in 1952 and definitely was minus a few mentions !  Apart from that and a personal interest more inclined to veteran era machines, very few people seem to know / realize ? that during WW11 the old Motor Registration Branch was in the now old Exhibition Buildings in Carlton and here thousands of motor cycle records went up in flames when a disastrous fire occurred.  The fire was never officially mentioned [anywhere that I can find] possibly due to Wartime Restrictions and maybe fifth column "enemy sabotage ?"  What was lost during that fire in the normally well protected cellars below ground level, were thousands of those motor cycle records so many of us seek.  A.O.M.C. records as I understand them, from cards begun in 1932; are Registration number, make of vehicle, engine number, some transfers and cancellations; no owners names and addresses.  Perhaps the surviving "on film" records spoken of were taken after the fire and thus some of the mystery machines just didn't make it into the 1952 edition ?  Leon [Cardan: hallo again after some time !] 500 names etc ?  Hope they were actually "registered machines" and not like those often recorded as ?? in lists at Darley Trials etc., where Harley Davidson and similar were often given accolades such as "GRAHAM H.D."
Enough for now.