My Father owned this bike during the mid to late 1950's.. courted my Mother on it but had to sell it when he got married to my Mother.
His story goes that he sold it and the new owner crashed it..
It has no record on the DVLA database..
Does it still exist?..
Sorry about the poor quality pics, they are old and faded negatives.
Ralph,
we have no record of that registration number on the VOC machine database, which means no club member ever reported owning it to the club or that we'd ever seen it anywhere. If we had the engine number and / or frame numbes, we might be able to find where the seperate components are that survived the crash but the bike clearly doesn't exist anymore under the reg MFD 421.
Obviously from the photo it is a Series C Comet and from the registration, I can tell you that it was registered in the West Midlands from August 1951onwards.
I'll put an entry in the database with the reg and your fathers details so that if it ever came to light in the future we have some history for it.
Do you know if your father owned it from new?
Thanks
Jon Lambley
VOC machine researcher