I hope you recover soon Charlie, and can get down into that fantastic sounding workshop. It sounds like you’ve been through the mill and had more than your share of bad luck. I hope it changes from here in and hope you enjoy the restoration of your new M20. There can’t be that many Brit bikes over there in the US?
Thanks for the kind words.,
There seem to be a number of bikes here. It seems back in the 60’’s many were imported. They are scattered around. I belong to a WWII re-enacting group, First Army Recon Mechanized. We have many WWII vehicles. There are 4 Indians, 2 WLA’s, 1 Matchless and now my two BSA. We also have several captured German bikes.
I am enjoying my retirement, but the old age
This BSA WM20.108521 is build under contract S5209 - 36 it left the factory in 1944, for this contract they used tank numbers from C5545518 up to C5557517 and this BSA had tank number C5549221 when it left the factory.
I have no US history and talking to the current owner the bike was purchased in a larger lot of engines and frames. They other stuff is from the 1960-1970’s mostly Triumph.
Now to start collecting the missing bits. The big purchase will be the magdyno and maybe a carb.
Does anyone know if these were under coated at the factory before paint. As you can see it has rust. As I clean the parts I want to primer coat in the right color for protection.
Hope that you are feeling better after the Covid? That's nice, I wished mine was a matching numbers.
I noticed a couple of things in the photo that Henk posted for you. She seems to have an early central speedo bracket, and i'm sure that the steering damper through the head stock had been delated by 1944.
Dave