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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 5466" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Originality</strong></p><p></p><p>I think you are correct. Can one believe that Vincent scrapped brand-new Bramptons, perhaps when some customers actually WANTED them, because of a marketing decision to change to Girdraulics and to call the bikes series C?</p><p>(In my own, drilling for oil, business we updated tool model names regularly because when customers complained that what we were selling was proven crap, we could counter-claim that that was the Mark VII, but this was the new, improved, Mark VIII. It was, of course, exactly the same, but the scam worked. You wonder why oil prices are so high?)</p><p>Any bike built to whatever spec in the transition period is probably original, and anyone who wants to believe that series B stopped dead and series C started immediately thereafter is delusional. My own (Feb 1951) Shadow had a chrome rear wheel and a black front wheel. A friend's Nov 1951 Comet has black painted wheels front and rear. Concours judges, eat your hearts out: or be prepared to know a lot more than you do.........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 5466, member: 4034"] [b]Originality[/b] I think you are correct. Can one believe that Vincent scrapped brand-new Bramptons, perhaps when some customers actually WANTED them, because of a marketing decision to change to Girdraulics and to call the bikes series C? (In my own, drilling for oil, business we updated tool model names regularly because when customers complained that what we were selling was proven crap, we could counter-claim that that was the Mark VII, but this was the new, improved, Mark VIII. It was, of course, exactly the same, but the scam worked. You wonder why oil prices are so high?) Any bike built to whatever spec in the transition period is probably original, and anyone who wants to believe that series B stopped dead and series C started immediately thereafter is delusional. My own (Feb 1951) Shadow had a chrome rear wheel and a black front wheel. A friend's Nov 1951 Comet has black painted wheels front and rear. Concours judges, eat your hearts out: or be prepared to know a lot more than you do......... [/QUOTE]
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