http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261512478138?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Someone got caught with this M21 ?? alloy head
Wow..I see he didn't list it as a BSA Clifford head but as an M21 head...So a misdescription there....
These are usually in good order as the head and barrel are fan cooled on the rotovator and consequently covered by sheet metal cowlings...
That's why the cooling fins run the 'wrong way' across the head...
I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay so much for the Clifford head....I assume that no one noticed the fin layout and they bid as if it was an M21 head..Alloy versions of those are now getting more expensive....
I have 2 BSA Clifford engines...So if the Clifford is 'the new Gold Star' I'm laughing....
....Ian
email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com
Talking of which, I met a very nice man in France who said he had a NOS M20 cylinder head and an original Rexine saddle cover which he'd like to give me.
Thanks to my friend John who met him at 'Tankfest' at the weekend and collected the gifts for me. I now have a lovely saddle cover on my new acquisition Velo. MAF complete with label and a spare WM20 head. 
.......What luck I had this year in Normandy......and I'm not a bit Irish. Ron
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NORTON-ARIEL-BSA-VINTAGE-BITSA-/221479125369?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item33912f4179&clk_rvr_id=661556062984
There must be £500-worth of spares though....
I don't think that's Noams back yard...It doesn't look like Israel...
Anyone got a set of the tin covers and an inlet manifold for a Clifford that they don't need?...
The Cliffords had both iron and alloy heads at different times...Most of the engines that come up seem to have ended up losing the barrel, which is the same as the motorcycle part...Ian
email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com
Hi Pat,
I wish it was my back yard..
As Ian said, it is not..
I live in a flat on the 2nd floor out of 8 in Tel-Aviv,
And hardly can find a parking spot (Car)..
But Ian, we do have a very developed agriculture here,
And actually teaching people from India, Africa and other places
How to grow founts and vegetable in special environments,
So fields like that are not out of the question,
And are common in few parts of the country
https://www.google.co.il/search?q=israel+agriculture&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FJS1U_O6D8rsO9nIgOAJ&ved=0CBsQsAQ&biw=1177&bih=1060
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel
Pat, the bus (?) at the background does look like a Tiger,
With the bottom part of the face missing, doesn't it?
But this one has a radiator at the front, and I am not sure that they had one..
As far as I remember, we had the older model, with the split windshield.
"MARK 2" "MARK 2 RT".
They imported the rolling chassis with powertrain,
And built the body here.
We still have it in the bus museum.. and in the hands of few collectors
In a usable state..
"Egged" Bus museum:
http://www.egged.co.il/main.asp?lngCategoryID=2814
I remember that as a kid I was fascinated by the way that the driver used
To shift gears by easily "throwing" the electro-pneumatic sifter in that "double H" pattern..
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By the way, Ian,
When n the UK, I noticed that you also went into the bus business??
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Cheers!
Noam.
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That's nice,
I went through the photos of the museum,
And I see that most of the buses ("boxes") were built in IL on the Leyland frame,
But some were also made in Greece and Holland !
I made a file with old IL Laeyland buses I gathered from the museum site,
And I will just post the link,
Before we make Henk mad, and he will erase the entire thread!!
http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Momo_Zozo/slideshow/Leyland%20Egged%20Israel
Cheers,
Noam.
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