I recently picked a 1942 m20 with a sidecar. I am looking for information on the sidecar. I have not been able to find any info on the sidecar as the build plate was sandblasted. I the visitors bikes section of the m20 site there is a photo of an m20 in Israel 4 rows from the bottom with the same sidecar as mine, it is purple and black in the picture. The only logo on mine is what looks like a winged T over a winged W. Anyone have any ideas?

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hi jason,why not post a few pictures,then you will get answers.
you will need a photo bucket or similar to post your pics
cheers rick

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here is a pic of it
http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w510/Jrbsa/IMAG0024.jpg

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Hi Jason,
Check out this link:

http://motobike.ifeel.co.il/article/7940.aspx

(Video clip at second third of page)

your sidecar was made in Israel, In Tel-Aviv by “Welkovits & Sons”.
This company started to manufacture sidecars made of steel and later of fiberglass back at the 50's.
Those produced at hard manual labor for all the tinwork by the father and founder-
And then the sons (Over 70 now) and grandson are carrying on, but as far as sidecars- they only repair it,
And do not manufacture new ones.

They more into metal works today, but do manufacture rear carriers for new scooters.

What appears to be an “I over W” is actually the letter “Vav” in Hebrew

http://www.google.co.il/imgres?q=%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA+%D7%95%D7%95&hl=iw&sa=X&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=gR-33dM_RdChLM:&imgrefurl=http://www.lehavin.co.il/Index.asp%3FArticleID%3D782%26CategoryID%3D164&docid=gJ_4C-3s5KVw3M&imgurl=http://www.lehavin.co.il/_Uploads/782vav(1).jpg&w=316&h=373&ei=2OBPT5zMJISChQftq_TKCw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=0&sig=111026208541489765477&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=107&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0&tx=42&ty=65&biw=1117&bih=484


which is kind of an equivalent to the W-
So you get the first letter of “Welkovits” in Hebrew and English.

I also have the same sidecar, with a slightly different chassis.







Cheers,
Noam.

By The way,

From the 60’s and up to the 80’s,
It was mandatory to have the license No. painted on both sides of the front mudguard in black over yellow,
After it became illegal to have this “Shark fin” on top of it anymore,
as it reflected severe injuries to pedestrians in case of an accident.

I see you still have a yellow color remains there, so I would think your bike was at some period driven around the Holly land..
If so, most chances it was a part of a delivery bought from Cyprus.

Noam.

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Thanks for the info Noam. The history as given to me with importation documents is that the bike served in north africa in ww2, at some point was taken to Israel and then imported to the midwestern united states around 1985. I dug it out of a guys garden in northern california where it had sat for approx 15 years behind a fence. amazingly everythingis there and nothing is seized. The magdyno even works (although better after being rebuilt). I have about 4 sets of numbers on the engine, and have found tan colored paint over the original black on the frame, and the remnants of some gas detector paint. All in all I'm pretty happy with my $500 purchase.
thanks again for the info.

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