On (07 Jun 94) David Drummond wrote to Bob Lawrence...



 BL> Ahh, memories! I've never heard of the Douglas, Greeves, or

 BL> Panther, but I used to own a Royal Enfield. Awful! And that doesn't

 BL> count a couple of German ones and the Italians.



 DD> I've never seen a Douglas, but my father said that one of my uncles

 DD> had one in his youth (1930's I guess or earlier). It was a

 DD> horizontally opposed twin running fore/aft like the first BMW made

 DD> by Max Friz (1923).



i used to ride a douglas t350 occasionally (it beloged to  a mate) very

nice, just like a mini bmw, with chain drive rather than shaft. you

could corner with the throttle using the torque to throw you into the

correct angle, and, on a cold night the flames from any backfires kept

your feet warm, the carbies were just in front of the foot rests.



 DD> The Greeves was a two stroke single dirt bike (early fifties to mid

 DD> sixties).



i lusted after one all my teen years (it was just lower in desirability

to a t bucket v8 hot rod)  (-8



 DD> No data mentioned in my "Classic Motorcycles" re Douglas, just the

 DD> name mentioned.



they made bikes from the twenties through to the fifties, aafaik all

horizontal twins, originally fore and aft (with equal length pipes that

looked very odd) and later transverse. all the ones that i came across

were 250 or 350cc.



 DD> AAMOI Enfields are still made under license in India.



christ, what is the world comming to? btw who it it that is making

trumpies again? i see one quite regularly, looks good with a water

cooled donk, has to be better than the 50s/60s models, they were

bastards to ride, lots of power, but road holding as bad as a honda

dream! nearly killed myself on  a speed twin once, still don't know how

i got round that corner  (-8



                            keith



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