It was indeed a very similar bike, this one had a 98cc Excelsior side valve engine coupled to a Burgman two speed gear box with a kick start, it was my first bike albeit a bit unreliable for my 9 mile each way journey to work - on the flat it could make 30mph deteriorating rapidly to a crawl up steep hills until piston seizure half way up until cool down hours later where it came back to it’s horrible self.Pandrop wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:34 amThat looks similar to the paratrooper bikes from WW2 JimJimo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:17 am I always admired the Quickly - but at the time couldn’t afford one! So I bought a £5 basket case Brockhouse Corgi instead....
Used it for 18 miles daily for 9 months - piston seizure daily at 7 mile point on very steep hill nr Crystal Palace - pushed rest of journey! Wipac coil failure nightly on homeward journey - swop coils, aaah the joys of impecunious biking in the ‘50’s....
Jim
Eventually parted with it for £15.00 in px for a very good sprung forked push bike having a Sinclair-Goddard Power Pack 49cc roller drive motor on the back wheel, - this WAS VERY RELIABLE and took me several hundreds of miles over many months without problems other than occasional de-coking.
Jim