Richard,
You beat me to it. Certainly not Nortons although they were present in Iceland (There is a picture on Rob van den Brink's Norton WD16H website of a similarly marked machine).
If I may be allowed to nit-pick, the bikes (the first two at least) are actually pre-war (1938 model year) KM20 BSAs with the nice (well I think so) valanced rear mudguard and long field stand.
According to Orchard and Madden's book C3914865 and C3914372 were part of contract A9764 which was completed in December 1938
I have seen a thread on another forum showing the restoration of a WM20 found on Iceland so presumably a certain amount of this material remained there when the British withdrew.
By the way, often the easiest way to differentiate WD Nortons in old photos is that they were unusual in having the front brake on the left-hand side (The girder-forked Matchless G3 did as well but it has an ohv engine).
Rich.
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27-04-06, 22:15
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