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Offline Meg jr

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Is there a motorcycle expert here? Repair also please
« on: Sunday 02 November 08 21:13 GMT (UK) »
Good evening,

The people in this picture are unknown to us. It may help to work out who they are if a date could be confirmed for the picture.

I am hoping that the motor cycle could be a clue as there is not much else to go on I'm afraid.

Could the marks be removed from the picture to make it look a bit better also please.

thank you very much

Meg :) :)

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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 02 November 08 21:27 GMT (UK) »
Wow, that would have impressed me in the late-60s when I had  a bike. 

Certainly pre-1963 as mine had the reg numbers/letters the other way round.

The bike looks like the sort that had the elongated squared-off petrol tank (no idea of the technical terminology) that ran along the main strut from the front to the back. 

The bike could be older/earlier than the riders. 

But the lads trousers and hair-dos definitely make me think late 50s "teds".
McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, O'Brien, Cuthbert, Keegan, Quirk(e), O'Malley, McGuirk (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 02 November 08 21:56 GMT (UK) »
This is really bugging me now.  Come on, someone must know.

It looks like a single cylinder engine and really compact and neat but a purpose built twin-forks with dampers model, not a converted push-bike.

McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, O'Brien, Cuthbert, Keegan, Quirk(e), O'Malley, McGuirk (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:08 GMT (UK) »
Hi Meg
Can't help with date or motorcycle ... here's a clean for you   :)
Kate


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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:30 GMT (UK) »
Not an "expert" on motorcycles but am wondering if it was a pressed steel framed Coventry Eagle motorcycle.

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:40 GMT (UK) »
With the 'Two Lettered' number plate, I would suggest  1930's.
Snell Brentford cira 1910: Canada cira 1924

Snell; Southampton 1920

Payne: Old Itchen Ferry Village, Woolston, Southampton Cira 1800 to 1930

Price: HMS Collosus & Victory cira 1900

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:45 GMT (UK) »
Well spotted Old Rowley

see the 1920s Coventry Eagle here:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Coventry%20Eagle%20Bikes/pages/Coventry-Eagle-20s.htm

but the photo is later than that and the bike in the picture is showing a tax-disc.  Does anyone know when they came in?

and Meg - love the clean-up - I'd probably still  find it easier, even after all these years,  to repair the bike than the photo - amazing stuff you all do!

Sheila
McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, O'Brien, Cuthbert, Keegan, Quirk(e), O'Malley, McGuirk (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:54 GMT (UK) »
The Tax Disc is Born

This is the story of the Tax Disc, and it is here that our hero makes his entrance. The Acts of 1919 and 20, laid down the specifications for the first Tax Discs and exactly how they should be displayed - by using a holder that shall be circular. It was defined as proof of payment of the Road Fund Licence and thus the Tax Disc as we know it today was born.

SEE:   http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/History.htm
Snell Brentford cira 1910: Canada cira 1924

Snell; Southampton 1920

Payne: Old Itchen Ferry Village, Woolston, Southampton Cira 1800 to 1930

Price: HMS Collosus & Victory cira 1900

Ernest Cooper; Cornwall, b about 1880 to 1900; Cornwall

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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 02 November 08 23:59 GMT (UK) »
From what I can find out the double letters of RR where the registration letters for the Nottingham(shire) area between 1921 and 1955.

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