Does anyone have any information on when bsa introduced the standardised handlebar controls - moving away from the complicated combination levers & replacing with Amal controls
Br
Job.

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It must have been relatively early. Is the forum photo Christmas 1940 or 1941 ?

My feeling is late 1940.

In the Christmas Greetings thread. Lex said that picture was taken in 1939.

The bike on the left in this picture has the standard controls and Henk dated it Aug 1940. Maybe Jan can confirm? Ron

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Hi Ron
Reason I ask is that a better resolution photo of a photo I already had came available yesterday

In it is a bike clearly showing its Irish registration plate

With this information- I determined It’s one of the last delivered out of 475 machines & its date of factory exit was 30 August 1940 leaving for Dublin

Personally I had thought this to be a bit early but it seems not with your photo & comments

Br

Job

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Tatters, what is wrong with the combo levers, use since 32 and reappeared post war as well.

Darren, nothing wrong with them at all! I've enjoyed them on my 1940 WM20 for many years. The main reasons for changing them were an attempt at some form of standardisation and of course economy. Regards Ron

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Yes, my early introduction B31 had the combination levers as standard...Ian

Hi Darren
Nothing wrong with them / just a question on when they stopped
It’s considerably earlier than I had thought
I might just keep my last set of combo levers here

Job

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Hi Ian
I was very surprised some years back to discover combination levers fitted to the b31 in 46 season
Don’t have a 47 parts list so I have no idea if it was a single season use only or not

Job

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August 1940 could be right for that picture.
Recently nick and i dicovered that in contract c6654 wich is orinaly fitted with all the early parts as valanced mudguard.central speedo and combined levers things changed to late style stuff. I guess they already make the modified parts and run out off older parts and decided to use them already.

It looks like that Roy

Bike on left has the L shape speedo bracket, a front brake cable instead of a rod - but has no steering damper knob - just the large adjusting nut - no number plate mount either

Br
Job

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Job, I probably have 4 sets here.
PlusI 1” ones.
I can send you patent drawings for them.

And QD brake rods.
Would look better with that valanced rear guard

I’ll drop you a line Darren
Job

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