During 1940 the UK "MotorCycling" magazine did a series on servicing English motorcycles and some accessories...The US company Clymer reprinted them as a book....lets look at some of the items starting with Lucas,BTH and Miller...

Floyd Clymer, was a reasonably prolific publisher in the USA from WW2 up into the 1970's....

I've a booklet he published in 1944 which puts together a series from the UK "MotorCycling" motorcycle magazine done during 1940...
It includes service articles for many of the popular British makes in WD form as well as service items for Lucas, BTH and Miller in their WD format...
Lets have a look at the electrical items for this post....

Some more scanned slides and negatives from 1974-75 during our European motorcycle oddesey from Australia...

Sorting more slides caused me to pause and scan more into my computer...I've run previous posts on this sort of stuff...no particular theme or order, but interesting photos via DQ of another time....

1974 in Douglas IOM at TT time.....

Tom Arter's garage...IOM TT 1975...

Jack Findlay, Suzuki, Ballaugh Bridge during practice...1974 IOM TT

1974 IOM TT...Arter Matchless

At the Elephant Rally, Nurbergring, February 1975.

February 1975 at the Elephant Rally in Germany, Nigel, Jim and Val Day...with the Lancs.Centre flag of the Velocette Owners Club...

A Ralph Seymour special Velocette...KTT Mk.8 engine, factory 5 speed gearbox, works 8" dia. internal 2LS front brake...at a Velocette Owners Club Day, Stanford Hall, UK, probably in 1975.

"Mrs Velobanjogent"....Judy, the "best pillion passenger in the world" ( to pinch a line from Bruce Main-Smith, the former MotorCycling journalist).
At our rented flat in Willesden, London, 1974.

  Snowing in London ..our flat with R50/5 under wraps and the R75/5 on the footpath.... 

My R50/5 BMW in one of its many guises, likely on the way back from the Elephant Rally in February 1975.

The panniers I made in Australia, I'd picked up an Avonaire fairing and the regular petrol tank, a 30 litre Hoske is temporarily replaced with the tank of an R75/5 I'd bought from Slocombes of Neasden in London.

Another shot of my R50/5...not NSW front licence plate. The bike was still registered in NSW, Australia. Likely a BMW Club run...

A London Centre of the UK Velo OC Club night at The Old Windmill pub,Hadley, Barnett...likely in 1975.

Another UK Velo OC club night...can't place this one, but the chap on the left looks like Geoff Blanthorn to me...a former editor of the Club's magazine "Fishtail"....

W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I featured items previously from their counter data books , lets follow the Norton items in those books.....

As mentioned in the last post, I've most of the trade catalogues and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, including the fascinating made up data books for the counter staff to ascertain products in stock for the major motorcycle brands from the 1930's...

Last time we featured Velocette and some accessory stuff...

This time it is Norton.

I notice that Reg Hardy who was the manager of Omodeis for such a long time up until its closure had cut up Norton "Road-Holder" catalogues for 1938 to add to his data book....

 Interesting to note the hand written comments by Reg Hardy on these pages....I've enhanced them, as they were often in pencil and almost now illegible....

Terms such as "big seller"....