A.I.D. Inspectors

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Rich Payne
The inspection system must have involved a lot of resources if the Air Ministry had their own inspectors with a manufacturer of side-valve motorcycles !

I had wondered as well about the "JLO" on the crankcases. I know them only as a post-war proprietary engine manufacturer. My Norton was engineless when I obtained it and I know nothing about the history of those cases which I bought at the Netley Marsh jumble last year.

Rich,

AID inspections would have occured on the most mundane items, look on it as quality control by the customer. Any problems would have been rectified before delivery, an inspector in residence was a small price to pay. Norton Motors may have been making parts ofr aircraft, or engines of course.

Not sure when JLO started, certainly producing in the late 40's, another possibilty is they were contracted to rebuild engines for the British Forces in Germany, post war.......but with the engine being an early one, I still go with my original theory.