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John Forsey
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First up is a James 125 MC. Known as the clockwork mouse. These bikes were used to act as "sheepdogs" after the D Day landings to round up stray troops and point them in the right direction. The 98cc welbike was also used on the beaches on D Day. A noisy, fairly usless piece of equiptment, also you can see the BSA folding push bike another piece of DDay landing transport. I was told by one veteran that once they had dragged these bikes ashore the bikes were collected up and dumped at Bayeux never to be seen again. Google has plenty of info on all these bikes. These are part of my vehicle collection, John
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Belly
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Excellent John

You're very trusting leaving those frames leaning against the fence!!

Thanks for sharing
Paul

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