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    The guv'nor

    Feb 27, 2019 2 minutes
    Words: Steve Wilson

    Small Heath's 496cc side-valve single was 'the guv'nor' among two-wheelers supplied by British manufacturers to its own and Allied forces.

    In the Second World War, 126,334 BSA motorcycles were produced from an overall British total 425,000, the vast majority s, with few thousand for training purposes

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