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Period advertising material
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Re: Period advertising material
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #2 on: 31.05. 2023 11:04 »
From March 1960 Motorcycle Merchanics - their staff took 2 x Golden Flash combinations fro the RAC Club in London to the Algerian Sahara desert at the ntime of the Algerian/France coloninal war.

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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #3 on: 31.05. 2023 11:55 »
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #4 on: 31.05. 2023 15:50 »
This guys just done something similar on a WM20
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176982039427770/user/100039049608418/
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #5 on: 31.05. 2023 21:04 »
G'day Angus.
Yes I've been following that. I think a fer of us here have had a look.
Certainly one of the better FB groups.
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #6 on: 31.05. 2023 21:55 »
Got some very nice ones on my old a10 site > https://www.a7a10.net/BSA/ads/advertisements.htm


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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #7 on: 01.06. 2023 09:35 »
From Cycle magazine February 1953.

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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #8 on: 01.06. 2023 11:38 »
The Super Flash must have blown a few socks off at the time. How does a 'Daytona' cam translate to later camshafts? It's interesting that they didn't fit double carbs. History shows that twin carbs make little difference to these engines; did the development team on this model discover that?
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #9 on: 01.06. 2023 20:37 »
G'day GB.
I wonder if it was the same as the 358.
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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #10 on: 02.06. 2023 09:26 »
I think the Super Flash had the 356 cam from the Star Twin, certainly what the parts list shows.

The 1953 BA7D Daytona engine brake test sheets show them with the 357 (where cam recorded) and the 1954 CA7D engines shown with the 358 (where the cam listed)

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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #11 on: 02.06. 2023 09:31 »
The 1957 Spitfire scrambler from Cycle magazine May 1957.

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Re: Period advertising material
« Reply #12 on: 02.06. 2023 16:40 »
The other page from Cycle magazine May 1957 showing the 1957 Super Rocket.

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« Reply #13 on: 15.05. 2024 13:16 »
This just showed up in “British Motorcycles” FB Group.

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« Reply #14 on: 15.05. 2024 14:30 »
They do Richard, and a bit of first aid can keep 'em going for ever.
Well, 71 years so far, this one  . . .  (I'll never change it for 'shiny', just can't get the quality!)
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