Note how narrow the gold lines are on the fuel tank.
Hi Simon,
I have an old shadow tank that needs restoration that has the same thin lines. It is from a C model shadow that was left in a Michigan State barn for 50 years.
Note how narrow the gold lines are on the fuel tank.
The blanking plate at the generator drive might be because there appears to be no electrics fitted yet. No wiring, no headlight or brackets, no dip switch, no battery..........
Bob's Black Shadow JRO102 was the prototype, not the first production one.That caption says 1949, but the speedo graduations are the early type. Too bad Roy can't clarify that now.
To be honest I think the factory records are the only thing that we can happily trust as an accurate source of information. Simon Dinsdale and his predecessors will I'm sure agree that there are the occasional mishaps and corrections but overall they are pretty bang on.Talking to Ted Davies one day about quantity of different models, he says records cant be trusted as some machines were thrown together to look complete at the end of the day, counted off, then next day stripped down and rebuilt properly, then counted off again.