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Quote for the photo's.

"Well if your having the battery, I'm going to have the carb"

TTJohn

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Quick!.. Pretend your doing something, the boss needs a volunteer for latrine duty!'..Ian

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I wonder how the Norton ended up in that lot!

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hi,is that mr churchill in the second photo top right? cheers rick

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This is Churchill for sure.

Henk

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bloody hell ,where is that picture taken?looks a bit like my house but far tidier.that sure is a nut and bolt rebuild cheers rick

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Looks immediate post war, too many civi clothes, a man in trilby hat and civi gaberdine mac,is he the boss? andrew.h.

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Hi Chaps,

What surprises me is that nobody seems to have noticed that there is quite likely a BSA standing beside the Norton, which is most surprising.
I would expect this to be a Canadian vehicle unit or dump and there are not many BSA's used by the Canadians.

Wakey wakey dozers

Cheers,

Rob

It must have been difficult being the envy of all the other Canadian DRs... ...Ian

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on the norton rear brake rod there seems to be 2 nurled knobs are these to ajust the rear brake rob i have looked hard and i cant see the bulldozer

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Roger,

If you see a bulldozer you might be to late anyway.

16H's with pannier bags had a knurled nut to lock the rod. The rod turns into the forked end at the front for adjustment.
At the rear there is just a nut fixed to the rod.

16H's without pannier bags had a the front forked end fixed to the rod and a winged nut at the rear end for adjustment.

Hopes this helps.

Cheers,

Rob

And here is the pannier bag version brake rod of which Rob speaks. They simply modified the rod to make adjustment easier once the panniers were fitted
which made access to the normal wing nut awkward. Ron

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I wonder if the second photo is post war, when they were auctioning off/disposing of surplus vehicles?
It seems most bikes have somebody looking them over, there aren't any tools lating around so they aren't doing any repairs, and the bikes piled in the backgound are obviously non-runners (wheels missing, etc) I see a Canadian Maple Leaf on the front mudguard in the middle row, the bike without a headlamp reflector.
I wonder how many of these machines are still around?
Vince

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hi,at first i thought it may have been a clearance sale but churchills double is in both photos.in the second photo i thought the bike in the centre had a lot number above the head lamp (105).in the first photo behind the guy with the hacksaw in the back of the wrecker seems to be a fairly comprehensive workshop with a pillar drill and a quite substantial centre lathe.cheers rick

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