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An absolutely stunning old picture sent in by Kev Goble. The lady on the front is his great grandmother Margaret Goble d1927. Lived in East Malling. Kent. Please can someone identify the bike for us?
Howard Burrows says “If I had to put money on it I would say it was a Velocette 2 stroke. I would not put the house on it but it’s the closest I could come.”
Leon says ” I agree it looks vaguely Velocette-ish (if you ignore the “unusual” front fork), but I don’t think it is. You’d have to be comparing it to the c1913 Model A Velo (the motor looks like a 2 stroke to me), and you’d find that the tank on this bike is very deep and that the magneto is mounted in a strange location: immediately in front of the cylinder. Velocette mounted the magneto behind the cylinder on their 2 strokes. The magneto seems to be Ruthhardt/CAV, which might date the bike as 1913 or later. But the combination of deep tank, strange front forks and high-front-mounted magneto doesn’t ring any bells.”
Hello The Lady in the photo is my Great Great Grandmother so pleased to see a photograph of her.