Royal Navy vehicles

[Ron Pier]

Request to Larry Hayward. Is there any chance of higher resolution pictures of the two that you posted with motorcycles. I can't make out the one in the Pacific, the one in Oz looks like an Indian 741? email ronpier@talk21.com


Regards Ron

[Ron Pier]

The picture in O&M's British Forces Motorcycles that Richard Farrent refers to, is i'm convinced a 350cc C12? Again wrong caption?

Ron

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

The picture in O&M's British Forces Motorcycles that Richard Farrant refers to, is i'm convinced a 350cc C12? Again wrong caption?

Hi Ron,

Did O&M got their caption wrong then?

I see there were only about 16 C12 machines ordered by the Admiralty.

[Ron Pier]

Hi Richard.
When I rebuilt my own 39 KC10 I did quite a bit of research to get it fairly correct. Here is also a factory drawing of a 1940 WC10.
There are some things is the O&M picture that just point to it being a C12.
The barrel certainly looks bigger? Ron

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

Hi Richard.
When I rebuilt my own 39 KC10 I did quite a bit of research to get it fairly correct. Here is also a factory drawing of a 1940 WC10.
There are some things is the O&M picture that just point to it being a C12.
The barrel certainly looks bigger? Ron

Hi Ron,

You are right. I can see the picture in the O&M book was wrongly captioned as I used that to count the barrel fins, just goes to show, you can not trust all you see. I knew one thing, it was certainly not a M20 in the original picture on here and I think that one came from one of the motor cycle magazines.

regards, Richard

[Ron Pier]

Yes Richard I picked up on that miss captioned picture also. But you beat me to the correction. It's that Jan you know. He should stick to Enfields. Only joking Jan.

Ron

[Larry Hayward]

Ron,

I'm sure you realise that all the motorcycle photos of RN bikes were posted by REWDCO (A.K.A. Jan in the Netherlands) and not me.