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<blockquote data-quote="Hugo Myatt" data-source="post: 32131" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>My C Rapide, 1952, was a 'Creamer Black Shadow'. It was originally supplied by Lawton and Wilson, Southampton. with a Southampton registration The original buff logbook stated it was a Black Shadow, although much later I realised the engine number said otherwise. Unfortunately this original logbook was never returned to me, despite request, when exchanged for the green variety. The specification included Shadow carbs, high bottom gear, Lightning style clutch, ribbed brake drums, 8 to 1 pistons and Shadow speedo. I don't know what sort of cams it had. The engine internals were highly polished especially the conrods. These could have been Vibrac but I shall never know. After a big end failure the engine went to a specialist, no longer extant, for replacement. It was only years after that I discovered the original conrods had been swapped for ordinary Rapide ones.The engine was not black enamelled in fact the cycle parts were not black at all. The logbook described the colour as Fish Grey. This was a very very dark grey. When I first got it I thought it had just faded and tried to polish it back to black (I was very young).</p><p>The reason I know that it was a Creamer 'Shadow' is that I was in correspondence with the second owner, John Vane, and it was he who had Mike Creamer 'Creamerise' it. John bought the bike as a Rapide from L & W in 1956 with 14,000 on the clock. Apparently Mike Creamer and his wife had both worked at Vincents until production ceased and then Mike became chief mechanic at Lawton & Wilson. It seems he was working there whilst 'Creamerising' these Rapides. John sold the bike in 1961 with 44,000 on the clock. I bought it in 1962 or 3. It had suffered a bit in the interim. John says it really was a quick bike. I quote from his letter of 17th March 1989.</p><p></p><p>"When Mike Creamer asked a customer what he wanted done (to his Rapide) the reply was 'Make it as fast as John Vane's.'"</p><p></p><p>Hugo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugo Myatt, post: 32131, member: 99"] My C Rapide, 1952, was a 'Creamer Black Shadow'. It was originally supplied by Lawton and Wilson, Southampton. with a Southampton registration The original buff logbook stated it was a Black Shadow, although much later I realised the engine number said otherwise. Unfortunately this original logbook was never returned to me, despite request, when exchanged for the green variety. The specification included Shadow carbs, high bottom gear, Lightning style clutch, ribbed brake drums, 8 to 1 pistons and Shadow speedo. I don't know what sort of cams it had. The engine internals were highly polished especially the conrods. These could have been Vibrac but I shall never know. After a big end failure the engine went to a specialist, no longer extant, for replacement. It was only years after that I discovered the original conrods had been swapped for ordinary Rapide ones.The engine was not black enamelled in fact the cycle parts were not black at all. The logbook described the colour as Fish Grey. This was a very very dark grey. When I first got it I thought it had just faded and tried to polish it back to black (I was very young). The reason I know that it was a Creamer 'Shadow' is that I was in correspondence with the second owner, John Vane, and it was he who had Mike Creamer 'Creamerise' it. John bought the bike as a Rapide from L & W in 1956 with 14,000 on the clock. Apparently Mike Creamer and his wife had both worked at Vincents until production ceased and then Mike became chief mechanic at Lawton & Wilson. It seems he was working there whilst 'Creamerising' these Rapides. John sold the bike in 1961 with 44,000 on the clock. I bought it in 1962 or 3. It had suffered a bit in the interim. John says it really was a quick bike. I quote from his letter of 17th March 1989. "When Mike Creamer asked a customer what he wanted done (to his Rapide) the reply was 'Make it as fast as John Vane's.'" Hugo [/QUOTE]
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