PUB TALK

Progress does continue on the pre-war project, but has been pretty slow due to other distractions recently. From the reports in this column it might seem as though real progress has been made, and it must, surely, be starting to look like a bike? Unfortunately it is not so. Yes, progress has been made (frame straightened and painted, a gearbox built, although not yet a close ratio type for which a sliding dog clutch is still missing, and engine work now proceeding), but the truth is that it remains an assortment of parts scattered around a shed and bedroom. It might be a while happening yet. The little progress this month was another session on the lathe, turning another hefty lump of aluminium into another large bag of swarf. This relates to the use of a post-war

Vincent liner in the pre-war alloy cylinder muff, which, as stated last month, ‘would have repercussions later’ – the repercussion being that the crankcase mouth is larger on the pre-war models. The