1947 Mk1 EMC Pictures
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Thanks to John for these pics of his 1947 Mk1 EMC. He says "I love this machine for probably all the wrong reasons not because it is the fastest or quietest or most ecomical as its none of these but because of the passion and the non logical way that Dr Joe Ehrlich built his machine and to his mind it would take the world by storm. The machine is so elaborate in it’s specification, no one else would dream of doing this on a two stroke machine in this era. To sum up Joe Ehrlich built his machines in the way that enthusiasts now restore machines with total disregard of cost." Mk1 Specification Duplex cradel frame with mag bronze backbone Air Dowty forks Vincent wheels (twin drun frount single rear BTH racing magneto Burman middle weight gear box His own passion to drive the machine, a 350cc split single, with all this costing more than a 650cc twin four stroke of its day, shows you why the total UK sales were in the region of 200 machines and there is I believe only 6 or 7 running
The Machine pictured is one of Joe Erlich’s PUCH/EMC 125CC racing bikes The basic engine is a Puch 125cc SVS split/single which Joe modified to produce about 20 BHP raced a few times by Ernst Denger shortly after he defected from the East German MZ factory in 1960 after he went to Suzuki. Joe produced the 350 split/singleof he’s own design and also a PUCH/EMC 250TF of which a road test can be seen on my blog site.