If you were dealing with enemy prisoners, you'd at least want your Sten gun to be loaded

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I seem to recall Enfield's stated as bsa's was a really obvious wartime one, to the average person then and for many years, off road car=jeep and military bike = BSA,

Even the Germans had it wrong.

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I like Bargles BSA a lot better

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Perhaps they were all ashamed of riding machines that weren't BSAs

And is this an historical precedent that would allow me to put a BSA badge on my BSA Big4 and BSA Welbike?

Rob

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I think that the photo caption reads 'Bergles' which was the German spelling of the village in the Sudetenland (now Czech Republic)currently known as Brazec.

http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/sud_luditz.html

http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3155626639&frmid=16&msgid=1199087&cmd=show

I did wonder if it was the name of a place, as I googles several options of the word with A's and E's and it didn't seem to be a persons name. Thanks Rik

Blimey Rik, I've just gone on the forum page you've posted about this and we had the same conversation then..! My memory is getting worse Maybe you'll have to remind me again in another 2 years

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I suspect that you're not getting enough sleep, Mr. H !

The yanks also got it wrong.

A close up of the MOTORCYCLING photo,as Ron says most probably a3HW,looks like webb forks,tin chaincases,tyre looks like an Avon tread pattern,handle bars look like the early 1 inch cow horn type.

Ah that's a better picture Steve. If my eyes aren't deceiving me I can read 887 on the left side of tank and 67 on the right. Which means it's from contract C13948 demanded in 1942. The missing number could obviously be between 0-9 which would make the bike anywhere between the 381st to 1281st from that contract, so I would say built in 1942 rather than 43.

Interesting to see a Triumph type fork damper wing nut instead of the expected Webb type wheel?

Ron

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According to my father a loaded sten gun was dangerous it would go off with a slight knock and look where he has that one it could sting a bit. Happy new year to all