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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Dinsdale" data-source="post: 126287" data-attributes="member: 58"><p>Yes the factory & Harpers did offer a service exchange but replacement parts most probably went to the dealers un-numbered. The factory would not have recycled damaged frames etc with restamped numbers as they would have incurred the wrath of the authorities and so parts would have just been scrapped. Now dealers tended to just ignore the numbers and so that is why there are quite a few un-numbered headstocks around.</p><p></p><p>I was told a story were somebody sent their UFM to Conways in the mid 1970's for new headsock bearing to be fitted and what they received back was a different UFM which they didn't really consider a problem at the time. The consequence of this years later though resulted in them loosing the UK registration as the DVLA take the headstock number as the vehicle's identifying link and the UFM they sent to Conways turned up on another bike. So it wasn't the factory that was the culprit it was the dealerships.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Dinsdale, post: 126287, member: 58"] Yes the factory & Harpers did offer a service exchange but replacement parts most probably went to the dealers un-numbered. The factory would not have recycled damaged frames etc with restamped numbers as they would have incurred the wrath of the authorities and so parts would have just been scrapped. Now dealers tended to just ignore the numbers and so that is why there are quite a few un-numbered headstocks around. I was told a story were somebody sent their UFM to Conways in the mid 1970's for new headsock bearing to be fitted and what they received back was a different UFM which they didn't really consider a problem at the time. The consequence of this years later though resulted in them loosing the UK registration as the DVLA take the headstock number as the vehicle's identifying link and the UFM they sent to Conways turned up on another bike. So it wasn't the factory that was the culprit it was the dealerships. [/QUOTE]
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