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Is it an ex Dutch Army M21?

Rob

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email (option): robmiller11(at)yahoo.co.uk

Nice picture Rob, thanks for sharing!

Not sure if it's an ex Dutch Army bike, most of these had crash bars left and right. This one hasn't... Maybe the huns had removed them?

Cheers,
Jan

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Probably took them off so thay could get 4 to a bike....

Nice picture Rob, thanks for sharing!

Not sure if it's an ex Dutch Army bike, most of these had crash bars left and right. This one hasn't... Maybe the huns had removed them?

Cheers,
Jan[/quote]

Jan, only 1 of the six ex Dutch pictures of M20/21's I have has a crash bar fitted.

Henk has many more, so maybe he knows?? also there's with and without paneltank, is that significant for an M20 or M21??

Grtz,

Lex

email (option): welbike(at)sameagain.net

Got an email from Mr. Gramser here in holland, and he says al Dutch bikes can be easily recognized by the little reflector on the front of the front mudguard, so it's present at the above picture, hence Ex Dutch contract!

Cheers,

Lex

email (option): welbike(at)sameagain.net

How many M21s did the Dutch government buy? where there KM21s as well as WM21s?

Rob

email (option): robmiller11(at)yahoo.co.uk

The Dutch were taking substantial quantities of KM21s as far back as January 1939 - I don't have any copies from the JM ledgers.

It's difficult to be precise as the War Office deliveries may have had separate blocks of numbers but the impression is that they were taking more than the British at this stage.

This could be because the Ministry of Supply still thought that Nortons could supply enough of the preferred machines.