I recently found a very nice book published just after the war giving a very detailed history of the Chilwell depot, here are some bike related bits.

Rob

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Very nice Rob, thanks for sharing.

Henk

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Fascinating, Rob - although I'm not sure about that 'road in Normandy' caption, unless it was Normandy near Pirbright !

Hello Rob,

There was another copy on eBay a couple of years ago. I wanted to buy it, but it sold for silly money... Glad to see you got hold of a copy!

The Royal Enfield WD/CO factory ledgers also contain the "destination address" of each motorcycle (e.g. Todmorden, Breedo, Leicester, Wilford, ...). Interesting to see that these "destination addresses" were all "M/C Depots"!

Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Jan

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