Manuals

Whenever people talk about 1940s/50s British 2 strokes the first thing that comes to mind are the Villiers engined machines, or the BSA Bantam. Occassionally Royal Enfields own engined 125 Flying Flea or the later RE2 do come up but seldom is the J.A.P thought of. Perhaps because the engine gearbox unit, which has a […]

Quite a rare little 11 page booklet for a motorcycle that is even rarer. Manufactured in Birmingham possibly by R Walker & Son or W A Lloyds it is believed that the motorcycle was built exclusively for New Zealand. Very hard to verify, but having gone through all the early motorcycle books that I have

This owners manual is for all those who would like to own a vintage Henderson 4 but like me find that they are just that little bit too far away price wise. But they are out there, recently one sold in New Zealand for $120K and it wasn’t even advertised. So grab your reading glasses

Dunelt produced some very interesting motorcycles and perhaps what bought them to attention of the motorcycling fraternity in the 1920s was their supercharged 2 stroke model K. No oversized blower chain driven from the engine but instead a clever design incorporating a stepped piston. The idea was to compress a larger swept volume of fuel

Panther is probably one of the less common motorcycles seen on the roads today, and if you do see one it will most likely be the big 600 or 650 sloper, and could even be pulling a sidecar, something that they excelled at. But Phelon and Moore, the manufacturers of Panther, did produce smaller capacity