In the pictures all around you can see my 1939 thumper, when I first collected it, it was a pile of rusty bits loosley assembled around a rusty frame, I couldnt stop grinning like the probverbial Cheshire cat every time I looked at it. The nice thing about it is it came with 2 log books, REME repair plate, army registration, civilian registration and, with a little help from a few friends, a copy of its original Key Card entry, Which gave me its tank C Number and the unit it last served with. As many Wartime bike collectors have found to their frustration, it is almost impossible to establish a bikes wartime service record unless you get incredibly lucky and find the original riders log book for 'your machine'

 

Next I hope to post some scanned pics of Richards bike running - and running very well in muddy fields! Before he took it to pieces for 'restoration' 5+ years ago,

 

Bins full of bits constantly skinning my shins proved to be a catalyst for my own ambition to own and restore a wartime BSA WM20.