Only way to insert that cranked valve would have required enlarging the rim hole. Instead I attempted straightening out the cranked…no comments further on that attempt. I am still kicking myself.
I painted my early Mk1 brown too but I have been informed by another reliable source that it should be the early khaki green.
I presume that every factory doing government contracts obtained paint supplies through the Ministry of Supply, how and when the colour changes happened at different factories would have depended on quite a few varying factors, Excelsior's Welbike production was quite small scale, I wonder what other war work they were doing which may have needed painting?
What was the frame number of the Salerno Welbike?
Rob
Rob, that Welbike has framenumber 2013 (see info above), and was not from Salerno, the MKI's were not Khaki green, but a much darker colour, have had the paint made from an original MKI from Italy (maybe from Salerno, or that neighborhood) Can spray a sample if you want.
