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Josh Smith
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You just have to be more careful when fitting the tank to stop the tank sitting on the cable
This is the trouble we’re having with our Series B Meteor.
You just have to be more careful when fitting the tank to stop the tank sitting on the cable
You are correct Graham. There is no such thing as a series B fuel tank the way most owners describe them. The large cutaway came in sometime towards the end of 1950. Its safe to say no series B machine was fitted with the larger cut out, but any series C made in 1949 and most of 1950 would have probably been fitted with a small cut out tank.
The Series C RFM is what you mean ? Yes?I have always thought that the small cutaway tank was not a Series change, although I think it came closer than you suggest. It may have been that the Factory instituted the change in late 1949 as a priority on the Flashes and Lightnings. I don't know about the Lightnings, but I have not seen a small cutaway tank on a Grey Flash. It is always difficult to know if the tank has been swapped out in later years, but there was little contemporaneous talk about carb clearance issues. The three North American Flashes seem to have survived well and all had large cutaways. All were built in early January of 1950. It is just as likely that some small cutaways were used on the other models until the stock was depleted.
The same applies to the shift lever. Many of these parts were used for the Flash/Lightning remote shift linkage, so the supply of the parts would have gone on through August of 1950 when the Flash was withdrawn as a model and they would have been provided as Series D parts on the Lightning.
Even what we call the Series C UFM was a Series D part as it was the only UFM supplied on Series D Lightnings.
David
The Series C RFM is what you mean ? Yes?