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During 1946, at a large holding area near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, the army disposed of these bikes in lots of five, mostly to motorcycle dealers hungry for stock to sell.
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As well the motorcycle factories who had originally supplied them, purchased them back, altering their colour from the war drab khaki to the usual, then, civilian black.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKT5HCJjqN4p3fhjVmSc7aDADUaKoYNT6zngPRuD1O9gmfb1j1QBQDNLyq8mQEZQcI6wAkxiSBouu5qkuxVg8Yr2PyeJaVY9GxWiJwmVzUXEz2qtjFx3zJUw0_2Yq8d1PMdRbTMs59q9B/s320/Civilian,+impressed+motorcycles+for+sale+1946+in+lots+of+5-3.jpg)
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