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Henk WM21 2415

Dec 11, 2011 - 10:24AM

Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

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Bram

Dec 11, 2011 - 11:51AM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

The BSA s just wheren"t fast enough that is
Wy thay think al captured bikes were BSA s

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Henk WM21 2415

Dec 11, 2011 - 12:17PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Watch it mate

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Ian Wright

Dec 11, 2011 - 12:24PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

'If I park behind this sand dune people might think I've got an M20 and not this bloody Norton'... ...Ian

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Horror

Dec 11, 2011 - 12:33PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

We left the Germans some really good bikes and showed them how to do it..... and they still made BMW's

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Rik

Dec 11, 2011 - 1:04PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

"If the Obersturmbannführer finds out that I've got a Norton, he'll take it for himself and and leave me that manky old Beeza !"

Horror

Dec 11, 2011 - 2:01PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Rik

Here's another picture of "BSA's" from a BSA website
http://www.ozebook.com/mcnews/bsam21/bsam21.htm

The picture when downloaded is titles "many M20s"
I think not...!

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John O'Brien

Dec 11, 2011 - 4:28PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Nortons on the WD BSA website - huh !!!

:-D

Jo'b

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Ian Wright

Dec 11, 2011 - 5:56PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

That's a great picture..though I've never got round to counting them...Test run for 2014? ...Ian

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John O'Brien

Dec 11, 2011 - 6:03PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Do you think any will make it Ian

:-D

Jo'b

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Ian Wright

Dec 11, 2011 - 6:05PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

The writing on the photo of the German looks like 'Barglas BSA' I can't find the name (either christian name or surname) in various lists of German names..and it's not a German word.
Is he a German or one of the many other nationalities that served in the German Army...any suggestions?...Ian

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John O'Brien

Dec 11, 2011 - 6:46PM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Maybe barglas is a place under occupation at that time ?

Job

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Horror

Dec 12, 2011 - 12:56AM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

I've just found an article about an Illegal Immigrant rapist called Louis Barglas- Herrer. We just need to know what country he comes from.

http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2011/aug/15/deputies-arrest-illegal-immigrant-rape-ar-2277126/

Maybe it should be Bargla's BSA so if you look for Bargla there are results. It's a surname and a district of Almora, Uttarakhand, India

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Rik

Dec 12, 2011 - 1:21AM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

Looking at the light downward strokes, I don't think that those are lower case 'a's, I reckon 'e's - It looks to me to be an attempt by someone brought up writing in Sütterlin script to write clearly on a photograph.

It starts to make sense then as Bergles is the Germanic spelling of the Sudetenland town now known as Brazec in the modern day Czech Republic.

http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SUD/kb/bergles.html

The location would account for the winter coat. It is interesting that an unmodified bike found its way to the east.

Horror

Dec 12, 2011 - 1:44AM

Re: Everybody wants a BSA even if it isn't

I thought the last "a" might be an "e" but 2 "e"s would make more sense, he doesn't look very Indian

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