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<blockquote data-quote="Villiers" data-source="post: 70434" data-attributes="member: 2183"><p>I'm very curious to know the survival rate of the batch of Villiers powered machines the factory made back in the desperation days of the early 30's.</p><p>According to Phil Irving's autobiography the factory first tried the ordinary 250 air-cooled Villiers engine of the day in one bike but found it lacked stamina. They followed this up with a batch of five bikes using the water-cooled version of the same engine, apparently with great success. </p><p>Have any survived? Are any still on the road? Do they come out to play?</p><p>So far all I've seen is one rather poor photo which brought to mind the old saying, "ugly as a robber's dog".</p><p>All and any info gratefully received.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Villiers, post: 70434, member: 2183"] I'm very curious to know the survival rate of the batch of Villiers powered machines the factory made back in the desperation days of the early 30's. According to Phil Irving's autobiography the factory first tried the ordinary 250 air-cooled Villiers engine of the day in one bike but found it lacked stamina. They followed this up with a batch of five bikes using the water-cooled version of the same engine, apparently with great success. Have any survived? Are any still on the road? Do they come out to play? So far all I've seen is one rather poor photo which brought to mind the old saying, "ugly as a robber's dog". All and any info gratefully received. [/QUOTE]
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