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Or does it have one of those curly-whurly alloy thingies - to the other side ??
That makes it somewhat more  complicated ...

Something like this - a Silent Superb  ?
(it was unclear if this was that actual version).
That manifold doesn't look very complicated ?



Short of endlessly trawling fleabay, or approaching Villiers Services for one, maybe the local fabricator could whip one up ?
A simple tubular stub - to suit the carb, and a 2 bolt plate welded on would about do it. ?

I had a manifold made up for an Enfield project. They used a long-necked Amal, which are near impossible to find as the correct one.
Wasn't especially expensive - and I had it done in stainless, so was a real work of art.
A plain steel one would not be beyond most workshops.
And if its all thats stopping you going for a ride. !

Be thankful its not the exhaust thats missing. Now that does look special. !!

Good luck, keep us posted..

Tread carefully here ?

I don't know about the G2 Bullets, but earlier Enfields had those nuts turned down a shade at one end,
so as to go into the CIRCULAR recess in the timing cover. This means hex nuts won't go.
But they may have changed this arrangement for the Bullets ?

Hitchcocks in the UK would have the real deal.
https://www.hitchcocksmotorcycles.com/partsbook-pages/1444

I think 30 and 31 are what is required (no quantities listed, so cannot be sure.)
They look like just plain cycle thread 1/4" nuts.

Luke at Britcycle.com.au had them NOS at $1 each, cad ? plated.
You'd have to chase the washers - stainless ?

Interesting sounding project. ?
Can we see it when done

Spheerol.

Need to be careful here.
Castrol makes quite a range of Spheerol greases.
Only the OO version is the semi-fluid stuff.

https://www.barnstormers.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ALbion-PDF.pdf

About halfway down, beyond the parts list and just under the little lubrication chart.
It does note that too much grease may block the lubrication pathways.

Nortons were in Aston Brook St for a good many years too.
They built/extended through to Bracebridge St in short order, and that seems to have become their primary address.

Don't think any pics of Albions' Tower Works are about.
Online anyway.
Unless the press or a magazine did a feature on them.
Which might be tough to find.
The factory records might have survived ? and been archived somewhere ?
Which might be equally tough to find...

EDIT  Birmingham City Council libraries have an extensive archive of the city's history.
Including a box with 26 photos of Upper Highgate St.
Let us see if they respond to enquiries ...

Bit of a side-step here, but has anyone seen a photo of Albions' Tower Works (factory),
in 48-56 Upper Highgate Street, Birmingham.
Demolished, at some point in the 1960s ?, and the area redeveloped extensively.

I've looked at all the usual sources, and a few discussions of this, with zero result.
Sometimes the parts books show a factory view. But not in this case.

Burman, by contrast, was keen to show off their Lee Banks works - parts books view.
https://i.postimg.cc/hGXnwpnq/Burman-and-Sons-Lee-Bank-Works-Brum-1922.jpg

I've been pondering what does that bike do for a gearchange ?

Can see the cute little (foot) brake pedal there....