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Hi everybody
First I'm going to introduce myself. My name is Guillermo but you can call me Willy and I write you from Spain.
I'm writing a book about Triumph, the motorcycles I like best, but I need some help.
I'll appreciate any photo, data or anything that might help me with my book. Of course everyone that gives me anything will be mentioned in the book.
I“m going to publish the book in English and in Spanish from the beginning. It will cover the whole Triumph history with present day photos of restorations, their evolution through time, and many things more.
For anything you'd like (questions, data, etc.) I“ll be here.
Thanks in advance
Greetings

anything here for you http://www.classicbikes.netfirms.com/triumph.htm

quick guess 1960,s honda 90

Haynes workshop manual 1978 to 1986  fairly good condition £5
Sheffield South Yorkshires

Wanted in very near future 250 Enfield or Villiers 250 twin engine in any condition running or not  complete or dismatled so anyone got anything not in a rush to sell and in uk Sheffield  or near let me know. Soon as i can make room for rebuild i will be in need of a engine.Like to hear about any other parts regarding these bikes just incase im in need of anything else.

Im sorted now and sold my machine on but stil have a full crusader and maybe enougth to build another but think these will be up for garabs very soon.
Cheers everyone

i can only think back to the 1939 james with the villiers 122cc engine have you any pictures we can see would  be interesting to see it ..infact i cant think of a 75cc james i had lots of these engines as i used to fix these engines into go karts at that time tutut but dont remember one that small .

De Dion-Bouton moped.  This machine has an appearance very similar to a 1950s Mobylette LVM's  seemed just as sceptical about the machine's identity, suggesting that the De Dion-Bouton badge and markings might be bogus, since De Dion-Bouton construction ceased in 1923.
However, as is the case with the readership of motor cycle magazines the world over, a large number wrote in to put the facts straight.  A company called Etablissements Chichery from the Le Blanc district of Indre built cycles, mopeds, autocycles and motor cycles under the marque name of Dilecta.  They acquired the rights to the De Dion-Bouton marque name and turned out their products using both the Dilecta and De Dion-Bouton names indiscriminately.

great bike had the ex police bike they used at bridlington i belive never had any problems just plods on for ever.

Hi Reman, nice to hear from you. I have a '48 copy of Booker, which has an illustration of the 350 WD/CO engine on page 19. Your engine should look broadly similar, ie: oil filter under timing case, and vertical finning above the exhaust. [The later Clipper/Model S head had horizontal finning only.] Your forks should have the cast top yoke with integral speedo, like the Model G; rather than the larger 'casquette' fitted to the Clipper and post '54 Bullets etc. [although I think I did see an advert for an 'S' with the casquette, but that may not be original?]
From your description, and the pictures in Gordon May's excellent book, [worth getting] the advertised '36' Model S may actually be a '37; [the '36 engine seems to have had a forward sloping cylinder.], but exact year dating is notoriously unreliable, so who cares!

Now you know yours is 'real' have you arrived at a plan for it yet? I haven't got a Model S, but I have two mid '50s Clippers, and two J2 500 rigids, under rebuild at the moment; so I've probably hit most of the likely major problems you will encounter. If of any use you can e-mail me on stvwheeler@aol.com so I can send pictures etc.

Cheers, Steve.