Granddad's bike

**Bonez** · 27th April 2009, 17:21

http://www.motorbike-search-engine.c...nfield-wco.jpg

http://www.motorbike-search-engine.c...nfield_350.jpg

Sorry Ixion saw your post so deleted mine. They're back for your veiwing pleasure.

**Ixion** · 27th April 2009, 17:25

Yeah. that one

**MSTRS:Me** · 27th April 2009, 17:36

Sure looks close.
Where there engine size variations? Cos that pipe, and it's height above the CC/below the tank don't quite match.

**digsaw** · 27th April 2009, 17:50

30s 250 Royal Enfield,prob 1936 or 7

**MSTRS:Me** · 27th April 2009, 18:07

Now we're talking...

Royal Enfield WD/C 350 (1941)

**Bonez** · 27th April 2009, 18:16

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Now we're talking...

Royal Enfield WD/C 350 (1941)

Looks like it alright. Here's another period shot.

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20...RE-WD-C-40.htm

**Brian d marge** · 27th April 2009, 19:32

A whole thread on Royal Enfields ,,,, I'm in Heaven

Stephen

**Bonez** · 27th April 2009, 19:41

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

A whole thread on Royal Enfields ,,,, I'm in Heaven

Stephen

Took long enough to pop ya head in young fella.

**PeteJ** · 28th April 2009, 14:33

Pretty sure it's not a WD/C (sidevalve), but an OHV 250. At a closer guess, a 1937 250S.

The number plate HLD712 (assuming it was English) was issued in the Greater London area, I think in 1939/40. That would square with either military issue used privately or private ownership (though I did think military registrations had their own letter coding).

**Bonez** · 28th April 2009, 17:14

Did they have a centre stand like the one in the OP?

**PeteJ** · 28th April 2009, 19:03

Originally Posted by Bonez

Did they have a centre stand like the one in the OP?

I believe that both the WD and the S model did.

Mind you, belief and knowledge are two vastly different things.

And faith - have faith, my son.

**Brian d marge** · 28th April 2009, 20:36

Originally Posted by Bonez

Took long enough to pop ya head in young fella.

it takes a while for the NZ electricity to be converted in to Japanese ones that I can use to fuel my desktop....

Cant stay though as there are Enfield photos yet to be unearthed !

Stephen