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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 and been archived somewhere ?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....

This one has been shown here before
Gosh that gearbox is tiny !



Leon commented then on how shiny it was, and on the curvature of that front guard...

Practice your run-and-bump start ?
Its generally easier to kick over a bike once its warm.
Well tuned, they practically start themselves.

Hmmm, so thats why LE Velos are becoming popular again..

Aye.
Since one is not like the other, something is badly wrong here !
Can you see if the free one is bushed inside (as it should be ?)

If that gear was fixed to the shaft, then any notion of 'constant mesh' gears goes out the window !
And since the fixing seems none too permanent, press required regardless, seems wrong....

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nV8AAOSwv~NlsRlm/s-l1600.jpg

We diverge

https://hughmanningtractormuseum.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Villiers-Mk-10-1960-2-scaled.webp

The Science Museum in London has 2 stroke examples of these.
Likely of British manufacture.
And earlier ?

JAP also got into this market. Bigtime.
Long after the motorcycle side of things faded away.