Help Id A Vintage (speedway?) Bike

[SwineTown]

Hi,

 

Can any vintage bike aficionados help us ID this machine and tell me if it is a speedway bike?

Looks like an early Jap to me but this is not really my field. And I guess that the long/grasstrack bikes looked similar enough.

Any ideas for a date? Looks late 40s/early 50s to me.

 

LINK: Click here

 

 

Names on back of picture:

Denis Comley

Les Lindsey (on bike)

Terry Webb

Johnny Williams

Geoff or Jeff Browning

 

Thanks in advance for any help

ST

[WIE-JA]

Hi,

 

Can any vintage bike aficionados help us ID this machine and tell me if it is a speedway bike?

Looks like an early Jap to me but this is not really my field. And I guess that the long/grasstrack bikes looked similar enough.

Any ideas for a date? Looks late 40s/early 50s to me.

 

LINK: Click here

 

 

Names on back of picture:

Denis Comley

Les Lindsey (on bike)

Terry Webb

Johnny Williams

Geoff or Jeff Browning

 

Thanks in advance for any help

ST

Yes that is a JAP engine in the bike. From that picture I couldn't tell you the make of the chassis, but is in grasstrack spec with brakes fitted front and rear and number plates.

[atherfield]

Hi,

 

Can any vintage bike aficionados help us ID this machine and tell me if it is a speedway bike?

Looks like an early Jap to me but this is not really my field. And I guess that the long/grasstrack bikes looked similar enough.

Any ideas for a date? Looks late 40s/early 50s to me.

 

LINK: Click here

 

 

Names on back of picture:

Denis Comley

Les Lindsey (on bike)

Terry Webb

Johnny Williams

Geoff or Jeff Browning

 

Thanks in advance for any help

ST

Possibably a "Victor Martin" framed grasstrack bike: Les Lindsey rode at Kingsdown grasstrack after losing his road licence for speeding on Blunsdon Hill: Date of photo would therfore have been between 1949 to 1952