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Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

You mean WD/C Lex! :smile: Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Ron,
no it's "normal" maybe you've got the C 7374/5/1 or the C 7945/10/1 from May 1940,
but in April 1941 there is a part list for these 2 contract condensed in one book!!!
and they ad the carburetor and the electrical system...

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the other pages are in photobucket..
find nothing about magdynos on the WD/G or WD/L part list or hints and tips books....

email (option): leger-arnaud@wanadoo.fr

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Come on, where are the other marque specialists? Research like this needs your support!

Jan

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Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Also Ariel WNG:
contract S.6287 ( issued march 1945) MO1/6,H3/0
contract C13871 ( issued November42 reprint feb 1944) MO1/4,H3

Arnaud

email (option): leger-arnaud@wanadoo.fr

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Sorry Ron, was just in time to change it!

Lex

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Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Gents,

Roy mentions brass inserts for the peg on a 1936 mag, my 1937 dated mag also has brass inserts, my 39 mag does not.
When did they change to full alu version 38 or 39?

Cheers,

Rob

email (option): wd16h@telfort.nl

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Hello everyone, my name is Aumkar and I'm from India. This thread has been a massive resource and I want to thank everyone for all the information. I'd like to contribute as well.

My bike is a WD Royal Enfield 350 Bullet. Dispatched from the Redditch factory on 18th December 1952 to London based freight forwarders Hales Bros. It is one of a batch of 750 dispatched in Dec‘52/Jan’53 to Hales for onward shipment to Madras Motors that were destined for the Indian Army. The bikes of course were WD spec as can be traced in historical photos, furthermore my Ammeter and Smith's speedo all have the chrome delete like the WD bikes did.

My MagDyno : M01L 46030...6/8/0? the last digit's stamping is pretty much destroyed.
L1 1153? <----

The Plate is Aluminum. I don't have the option to upload an image or else I would have attached it.

email (option): aumkarchandan@gmail.com

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Hi Aumkar,

You can send the pictures to me, I'll post them for you. And please send a few pictures of the complete bike too! 😊

Jan

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Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Hi
I,ve just found an old Lister engine with what is obviously the wrong Magneto. It is a Lucas King of the road with a plate that reads.....

MO 1.4 465102
L1 8 40

I wonder if someone could tell me what it started life on?

Thanks
Michael.

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Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

The L1 type seems to have been fitted to Royal Enfield. I have a couple of M01'4 listed with the part number 465102.

Production during August 1940, is likely to have been for a WD/C model, but it could have been supplied for any model then in service.

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Rik
The L1 type seems to have been fitted to Royal Enfield. I have a couple of M01'4 listed with the part number 465102.

Production during August 1940, is likely to have been for a WD/C model, but it could have been supplied for any model then in service.
Many thanks for that.
Would it be very desirable to someone with a WD/C?

email (option): mjgolden210@gmail.com

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

There would be a market for the magneto which would fit most Enfields and the specification plate would certainly be desirable to someone building a late 1940 WD/C.

Presumably a brass plate at this date ?

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

Yes, brass plate.
It is just the mag, no dynamo.
Not sure where I'd track down someone rebuilding a WD/C, it would be better on the motorcycle than on the Lister engine it ended up on.

email (option): mjgolden210@gmail.com

Re: Lucas M01 Magneto Variants

I'd suggest a post in the "Sales" section here, preferably with a photo or two (it requires a separate photo host though but we can talk you through that or post a photo for you).

With a bit of luck, someone with a contract C6215 WD/C will be looking for this very magneto.

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