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Photo from the "Old County" #594483 04/11/15 5:01 pm
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 73 UK J jacks the lad OP BritBike Forum member
OP jacks the lad BritBike Forum member J Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 73 UK	Something you probably won't see too many of Stateside It's a a Coventry Eagle 300cc S/V from 1923, it runs too. All the way with BSA

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Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #594748 04/13/15 10:21 am
Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 124 California K KennethC. life member
KennethC. life member K Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 124 California	What a beauty! And you are right, haven't seen a lot of these about on this side of the pond. 1967 Triumph Mountain Cub 1968 BSA Victor Special 1968 BSA Lightning 1971 BSA Thunderbolt 1971 AJS Stormer 1972 Bultaco Sherpa

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #595542 04/18/15 11:01 pm
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 10,840 Pennsyltuckey ricochetrider Moto Mojo
ricochetrider Moto Mojo Joined: May 2007 Posts: 10,840 Pennsyltuckey	Not stateside... Possibly not anywhere, really. Wonder how many of those have survived the years? "It is no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #595560 04/19/15 5:04 am
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 73 UK J jacks the lad OP BritBike Forum member
OP jacks the lad BritBike Forum member J Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 73 UK	Laid up in a garden shed in 1939 at the start of WWII, owner never came back for it. Stayed there until the shed collapsed in 2002 and was found amongst the derbies. Just done the work to have running once more, otherwise left it alone as much as possible. It's taken 90+ years to get to be the way it is, I'm not going to spoil it now All the way with BSA

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #595567 04/19/15 5:41 am
Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 2,004 Pacific northwest Q quinten BritBike Forum member
quinten BritBike Forum member Q Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 2,004 Pacific northwest	Very nice patina on patina .

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: quinten] #598945 05/11/15 10:17 am
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 2,519 Illinois, USA TR6Ray BritBike Forum member
TR6Ray BritBike Forum member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 2,519 Illinois, USA	Great picture, Jack, and a nice job of getting it running while preserving what you found. '64 TR6R Plus some Twins from other countries (U.S., Germany, Japan)

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #612327 08/10/15 7:17 pm
Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 303 Waldorf, Maryland Tiger Dale BritBike Forum member
Tiger Dale BritBike Forum member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 303 Waldorf, Maryland	you're not gonna see many of those on either side of the pond. Great find and work. BRILLIANT!!! TD

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: KennethC.] #715856 11/20/17 12:09 am
Joined: Nov 2017 Posts: 4 Port Orange, FL D Doug Spranger BritBike Forum member
Doug Spranger BritBike Forum member D Joined: Nov 2017 Posts: 4 Port Orange, FL	New to this Forum - but was hoping someone else might have a 40's Triumph Speed Twin to compare a few details. Was going to post a photo of my 1948 5T, but your site doesn't allow uploads from the computer? Only from the Web? Strange. That means I have to upload to another kind of photo site (thereby having to join yet another thing, requiring yet another log-in and password, etc. etc.) So will just have to forgo pictures . . . .

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #739390 06/21/18 3:35 pm
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 155 england P peter paul BritBike Forum member
peter paul BritBike Forum member P Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 155 england	What a lovely old thing , it looks if it has a fixture for a belt drive on the rear r/hand side perhaps for a knife sharpening stone its probably been a workhorse in its time, its just a guess (imagination running away) I like the rustic brown colour . , thanks for showing it to us all truly a gem PP Last edited by peter paul; 06/21/18 3:37 pm.

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #739392 06/21/18 3:45 pm
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 4,667 ohio, usa kevin roberts DOPE
kevin roberts DOPE Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 4,667 ohio, usa	Originally Posted by jacks the lad Laid up in a garden shed in 1939 at the start of WWII, owner never came back for it. 1939 was a bad year not to come back from. any history on what happened to the owner? every day you do not take a chance is a day of your life that you will never get back.

Re: Photo from the "Old County" [Re: jacks the lad] #748722 09/11/18 1:54 am
Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 16 mississippi, brookhaven T triumph david BritBike Forum member
triumph david BritBike Forum member T Joined: Feb 2014 Posts: 16 mississippi, brookhaven	Nice find, its a wonder that it's in as good shape as it is!!!!

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