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help dating this photo
« on: Thursday 31 March 11 15:28 BST (UK) »
The driver appears in other pictures with my grandmother's brother who was William Robertson, born 1875 Dunfermline. He emigrated to NSW Australia after 1901.

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Re: help dating this photo
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 31 March 11 15:57 BST (UK) »
We need to see the whole thing please, including the outer corners.

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Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

King~Bedfordshire~Hull
Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

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« Reply #2 on: Thursday 31 March 11 16:13 BST (UK) »
Well, I've looked out the original, and what you see is all I have. We now think it is a triumph, with a rubber belt drive.
Manick

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Re: help dating this photo
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 31 March 11 16:38 BST (UK) »
You do have the original, then?
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

King~Bedfordshire~Hull
Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

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Re: help dating this photo
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 31 March 11 16:42 BST (UK) »
I got it in a box of old family photos from a cousin. As usual, about 1 in 50 have any writing on them, and this isn't one of them.

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Re: help dating this photo
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 31 March 11 16:47 BST (UK) »
I've had a bit of a trawl in the gallery on this site - http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/ but there are 180+
pages, maybe you could send it to them to see if they can identify the bike?
Rigg/Scholfield - Oldham/Rochdale
Hibbert/Moore - Hayfield/Saddleworth
Garstang/Kirby - Littleborough/Todmorden
Sutcliffe/Hill - Todmorden/Walsden
Young/Stevenson/Newbutt - Ticknall/Kegworth/Nutall/Hucknall/Bulwell
Woolley/Potter, Gaze/Parkins - Kegworth/Normanton-on-Soar/Wheathampstead/Harpenden
Smith/Green - Offley/Flamstead

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Re: help dating this photo
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 31 March 11 17:00 BST (UK) »
Why can't you rescan it to show us the whole thing, including the outer corners? And if there is a design of any kind on the back, could we see it too? Everything is a dating tool.
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

King~Bedfordshire~Hull
Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 31 March 11 17:15 BST (UK) »
There are no borders, and the back is perfectly blank. Thanks for your interest, I am now pursuing other leads.

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 31 March 11 17:55 BST (UK) »
I suggest this bike worth a look at .......

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1911-excelsior.htm

Gordon

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