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Dec 5, 2020 - 6:46PM

Re: W/NG replacement alloy parts with pressed steel

These stills from a movie show C5491281 which looks like it has both the mag chain cover and primary chain cases in steel,I dont have the parts list for this contract,but it is probably 1944 it still has the long canvas twist grip,later they had the shorter BSA twist grip and bars which are in the 1945 parts list.

Below this photo shows WNGs in Italy they have the alloy mag chain cover,but the primary chain cases are khaki painted so maybe steel.

Ron Pier

Dec 5, 2020 - 8:05PM

Re: W/NG replacement alloy parts with pressed steel

All the period pictures I have show the ally chain cases were painted anyway.
The one in the colour movie is from the same contract as mine, but mine is fitted with an earlier engine. Ron

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Maarten

Dec 6, 2020 - 9:25AM

Re: W/NG replacement alloy parts with pressed steel

My WNG from contract S4554 / 23 march 1944 came pretty much complete from behind a double wall when a farm was broken down in 2015. It has a pressed steel timing cover and an alloy primary case....looking at the stills from the movie above, the census number of mine is close to that of the one on the stills...

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keith chandler

Dec 6, 2020 - 3:26PM

Re: W/NG replacement alloy parts with pressed steel

vincent

Keith, maybe old hat but... later WNG rear engine plates have two holes for the footrest rod to pass through.
With a steel case you use ehhh, the upper hole (I think) and the lower with a alloy case.
Well, anyway either way, plates with two holes are later ones.
When I build my WNG I thought someone drilled extra holes....so I welded the 'wrong' ones up ! haha

Thanks Vincent that explains why the hole in the steel chaincases appears to be in a different position to that of the alloy chaincases. I can only assume that the reason for this was to change the position of the rider's footrests?

I will have to have a closer look at the engine / gearbox plates I have.

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