Two
Strokes and More.
I
have a whole muddle of things I have been thinking about as the snow
swirls around and I’m not able to do much about anything. I’m
waiting for oil seals from the LE Club as both the Valiant and the
Greenford Police LE have started to leak from behind the generator
flywheel. It can only be the front oil seal so I wait the delivery of
new seals. When I put the heater on I can work in my garage but the
space is limited and putting dabs of primer on the leg-shields to
smooth them out a bit more is as much as I can do before the top coat
is applied and I’m not sure when that will be. It has to be a bit
warmer before that can be done
The
visit to Sammy’s has made me think about two strokes not only the
Villiers four but the little Tandon that was made in Ludgate Hill
London and here is a small list of some of the bikes made in my area
over the years. My thanks to Pete for supplying me with this
information.
Ascot,
Pentonville Road
Austen,
Lewisham
Banamoto,
Acton also made Cyc-Auto that was Park Royal
Bowden,
Greys Inn Road
British
Anzani, Hampton Hill
Brown,
Great Eastern Street
Butler,
Dalston
Calvert,
Stoke Newington
Casswell,
Great Eastern Street
Castell,
Kentish Town
Century,
Willsden Junction
Chater
Lea, Golden Lane and later Banner Street
Clement,
Regents Park
Cyclaid,
Raynes Park
Dayton,
Shoreditch and later North Acton
Duzmo,
Enfield Way
EMC,
Perry Vale
Featherstone,
Bethnall Green
Gamage,
Holborn
Grandex,
Grays Inn Road
Grigg,
Twickenham
Hack,
Hendon
Hazel,
Forrest Gate
Iris,
Brixham
Ixion,
Loughborough Junction
JAP,
Totenham
JP,
Cheapside
Kerry,
Shoreditch
Kuhn,
Stockwell
Kyma,
Peckham Rye
Lagonda,
Staines
Lindsay,
Clerkenwell
Little
Giant, Uxbridge
Mabon,
Clerkenwell Road
Mars,
Finchley
Neofold,
Battersea Rise
Newman,
Tabernacle Street
NYE,
Leather Lane
Ogston,
Acton
Pheonix,
Holloway Road
Pride
and Clarke, Stockwell Road
Randall,
Wanstead
Rayner,
Chancery Lane
Reyre-Newson,
Stamford Hill
Silva,
Conduit Street
Swallow,
Park Lane
Trent,
Shepherds Bush
Tyler,
Gerrard Street
Vindec,
Great Eastern Street
Weller,
West Norwood
Whippet,
Twickenham
Wilkinson,
Acton
Wooler,
Park Royal
Young,
Waltham
Zenith,
East Molesey
Not
an exhaustive list but quite a number mostly surviving only a few
years in the 1900s.
More
up to date is the Villiers Four that look like a collection of 9Es in
a Vee. There was a common crankcase that was pressurized by using a
Shorrocks supercharger to provide the crankcase pressure, the
brainchild of Bernard Hines. The following photos should explain it
all.
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