If you go to the IKBA website.......ikba.co.uk (this is a forum and spin off from the RealClassic magazine), you will see a post on "Todays Tea Time Tale" and besides a nice picture from The Motor Cycle 1939 showing Norton Big 4 kit inspection, it has a link to an interesting first hand account of post WW2 motorcycling including on ex WD bikes. Enjoy!
That memoir was wonderful. Funny, touching, full of first-hand tech know-how, and some zingers about certain machines. This bit was especially precious...
"I also used the 3HW as an occasional taxi to pick up mates from the local railway station and give lifts to the camp – best load was six – one on the bars, two on the tank, me in the saddle steering with my finger tips to bombing run commands, one on the pillion and tail end Charlie on the luggage rack. We made the four miles OK despite the drink taken..."
