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Few Old Bikes

Nice Bernard is it time for a British Bike come back after news from Japan this morning.:)

Just a dream
 
Nice memory Dave, I remember when the POLICE were issued with them:D
 
I think he certainly did, one thing puzzles me, where did he keep his ashtray when on the move?
 
WOW, what risque picture from the early 30's, ladies not only driving motor bikes, but wearing Nicker-bokkers, and Smoking in Public.paul
 
I've got these pics elsewhere on the forum so here is a link to them showing my sister on an old motorbike in 1939/40. Someone on the forum told me it could probably be a Red Panther ....
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Dad and Mom did all their courting on a motorcycle and here are 2 pics of Dad and Mom with his bike and side car Tiger 100 and I can't work out the side car
 

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Morturn said:
Very nice, do you know the locations of the photos?
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Handsworth Wood Lane the photos were taken in 1939 Dad was home on leave before he went Far East
cba said:
The man on the left resembles my uncle and he was a motorbike enthusiast. Do you know who he is?
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I think he is an old friend of Dads called Ted Ward Just found the Photo and it is Ted Ward and the bike is an Ariel 350 and Dad is on his Triumph tiger 250 cc
 
Out in the sticks Brummy said:
Handsworth Wood Lane the photos were taken in 1939 Dad was home on leave before he went Far East

I think he is an old friend of Dads called Ted Ward Just found the Photo and it is Ted Ward and the bike is an Ariel 350 and Dad is on his Triumph tiger 250 cc
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Thanks. Not the same person.
 
any one remember them

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Welbike Paratrooper Motorcycle - Revivaler

The Welbike began life as a creation of the boffins of Britain’s Special Operation Executive’s (SOE) secret special equipment facility “Station IX” at Welwyn in Hertfordshire and found a surprising range of uses during the Second...
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we had a civvy version corgy
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The Brockhouse Corgi: A Folding Motorcycle Based On A Design For WWII Commandos

The Brockhouse Corgi is the civilian version of the Welbike, a small folding motorcycle developed during WWII to be air-dropped behind enemy lines with
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