Its well known that Royal Enfield rebuilt ex WD machines after the war in late 1945 and during 1946,they also issued spares books and a maintenance manual in 1946 for these machines plus reprints into the late forties,looking through them you find that they still have many WD parts listed in them ,mainly from the later parts books such as panniers,prop stands,and late war handle bars ,levers ,grips etc,but most probably not fitted with them,although you could buy them in wartime trim from dealers still in khaki paint,along with dealer refurbished in black or maroon paint at extra cost.



above,military rectangular type pillion seat.
below,BSA part number on handle bars,plus canvas grips.

These booklets were used for several different bike categories:
- In November 1945 the Army sold off all the Enfields, often in lots of 10 bikes or more. These bikes were often bought by dealers, to be rebuilt (resprayed?) and sold on the transport hungry civilian market.
- Some of the ex Army bikes were taken over by the factory and professionally rebuilt, also for the civilian home market.
- The factory also had lots of military spare parts and rebuilt engines and gearboxes, which were now all obsolete. Up until the early 1950's these obsolete spare parts were assembled in "home market Model CO" bikes, with their own specific frame number sequence.
- When the war was over, the last WD/CO contract S/3357 had been cancelled after only 3.500 of the 5.000 contracted bikes had been delivered. The factory still had enough brand new parts to build another 1.500 brand new bikes. These "export market Model CO" bikes were all sold abroad.

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