« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 07:57:11 AM »
It seems that the original version was a 98cc machine but a more powerfull 125 odd cc option was included as a delux version. I understood the Villiers was the smaller and JAP larger but this is gleaned from a quick search of the Internet where incorrect info abounds. My interest is that the company that made them was BAC. Laurie Bond made little himself finding a manufacturer to licence the various designs he came up with. I know he worked for Blackburn so is this Blackburn Aircraft Company? My father was with Blackburn for a little while and helped design and make the prototype Beverley, the 'flying shoebox'. There were great ideas of sitting passengers in the leading edge of the thick wings which never came to production. It is alleged Bond half inched a lot of the parts used to make the prototype Minicar from Blackburn. I like that idea.
Yes it is as pictured.
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