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Originally posted by Jordan Baker
Hi everyone
As promised to Charlie Fitton here are some photos that are in my collection of Canadian troops on Motorcycles in England. Unfourtunatley I have no idea who most of these men are or to what untis they belong to.
Any help in identifying the motorcycles is much appreciated.
The name for the soldier in this photo is believed to Harold Harris and that the photo was taken at an unkown location in June or July of 1946.
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Jordan: The bike in photo no. 1 is a 1942 Harley WLC. The tip-off is the tool box on the front fender & the round air cleaner. The high headlight got broken every time the bike was dropped or rolled, so the front fender tool box was eliminated & the headlight was switched with the horn to protect it from being broken. Also, the oil bath air cleaner was changed to the square one used on WLAs at the same time and that configuration became the 1943 WLC. The 1943 WLC also had the fender lights switched to the pencil type used on CMP vehicles. The rider is wearing a Wedge Cap which was worn very early in the war & was superceded with the Beret well before the D Day landings in 1944, so the picture must have been taken long before 1946.
Cheers, Bill Spence MacDuff Piper