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Ah the India Office! They did order them with some strange modifications. I could tell it wasn't a Vokes elbow and the painted cases threw me.

Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

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Yes you are right about these painted crank cases. Here an image from the booklet about these India Office BSA's, cleary unpainted aluminium.

Henk

India_Office_BSA_book

email (option): ahum@quicknet.nl

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Henk,
is there a chance you can send me a full resolution picture of the voltage regulater please?
is the lead seal visible?

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Hi Clive,

The photo is on it's way.

Henk

email (option): ahum@quicknet.nl

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Henk Joore
Yes you are right about these painted crank cases. Here an image from the booklet about these India Office BSA's, cleary unpainted aluminium.

Henk

India_Office_BSA_book


There is the way BSA supplied them, and the way the army used them
Which is correct ?

You all argue till you are blue in the face about regimential markings when no BSA had them on when they left the factory .
In which case why is it so catistrophically wrong for the cases to be painted ?
When the Australian army flogged off WM20's in the 60's & 70's a lot of them had painted cases.
Some were silver frost while others were green in varying shades.
Similar when they flogged off the B40GA's nearly all of them had painted bars, painted exhausts and painted cases, again done in silver frost but that is not how BSA made them.
There were some B 40's that had green painted cases as well.
Down side is camera's are prohibited on army land so one can not take refference photos of how the bikes looked the day they passed from military ownership to private hands.

email (option): bsansw1@tpg.com.au

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I think most of us like to depict our bikes in a wartime configuration and no doubt unit markings were often applied once the bikes were received by their respective units. I don't know how common it was for engines to be painted in REME workshops during the war. Certainly it was common practice post war. So in any case you would be depicting your bike as a REME workshop rebuild with a painted engine.

However though. Matchless did build bikes with various forms of painted engine and gearbox casings.

Testing picture posting again. Ron

1940_G3_IWM_KID_5392_small
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Did anyone notice that the BSA is in every way an early model, but has the speedometer drive on the left side.

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