Limited production (or at least assembly) was carried out at a temporary site (Nicknamed 'The Cape of Good Hope') whilst Meriden was being built...

Interestingly, Bert Hopwood recovered (stole!) some wall lights he'd always liked from the boardroom of the factory the day after the bombing and eventually put them up in the living room of his retirement home in Torquay....I remanufactured a few parts that he'd misplaced along the way to make the lights complete...Stupidly I didn't keep the drawing or the letter of thanks he penned....
Interestingly, after his retirement he still owned the Rover car that was his company car whislt at BSA...They gifted it to him when he left...There were just two entries in the logbook...BSA Motorcycles and Bert Hopwood!!...That was a car I'd love to own!..Ian

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I think you are right about the bombing Jan. It looks like just a few more 3SW were supplied from temporary factory, Cape Warwick in 1941 before production of the 3HW started. The 143 added to that C7162 contract were actually the pre war 3H. Ron

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Indeed a wonderfull picture. Again.
And a funny story about Bert Hopwood. I understand that he developed the Norton twin engine.
Long ago I was offered a complete and running model 7, wich I stupidly didnt buy (Things like that hunt you for the rest off your life)

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I guess they added the "W" anyway. Ron

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