Update on the New Henley 1928, 350cc

[smartfella]

Hi All,

A while ago i got some help from the good people on here with my New Henley restoration project.
I hope i got most of it right as i didn't have much to go on at the time. I am hoping to get a working Burman gearbox back for a
very nice chap in Milton who is helping me out with some issues.
 
This is how the NH looks like now. It's based on the NH that got a 2nd place at the 1929 TT.

[smartfella]

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[R]

It is looking very smart isn't it. Nice work !

Can I break it gently to you though that racing numbers on a sidevalve in the late 1920s would be a bit hows-your-father, the race bike shown is an ohv, and would have needed to be a bit special to get that high up the order. (who was riding ?: he would have had to be also)
Cheers !

P.S. Also, how to break it gently to you that NH don't seem to feature in the results for the 1929 TT,
they (3 riders on NH) are listed as a DNF ?

[R]

And perhaps what we should be asking is what does it go like on the road.
Is it a revver, or a slogger ....

[R]

Ah, 2nd in the amateur race
https://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events/Races.aspx?meet_code=ATT29&race_seq=1

Where there were a lot of non-finishers, it must be noted.

[murdo]

Very nice.

[smartfella]

Thanks R

It should be a 350cc JAP OHV but as usual with restorations it's hard to find and then hard to justify the price.
If i do ever get a JAP engine i will fit it.
The rider was, Dennis Z de Ferranti. He got 2nd cos the rider that finished 2nd was disqualified.
Who cares tho, The record books say 2nd. 

The other reason for the 13 plate is Road Racer Lee Johnston(#13) is my 2nd cousin and i mentioned to him at the NW200 a few years back about the project.
I asked him if i finished it off and got it over to the Classic TT would he do a lap and he said if he could he would.

[cardan]

1929 was the last year for the Amateur Races on the IOM, replaced by the Manx GP for 1930. Quite different from the TT Races run earlier in the year when the big boys came out on their factory racers.

Leon