Hey, Brian. Keep us all up to date with restoration progress on your little BSA. The real mystery is just HOW it came to be in the USAicon! Obviously sold in the late 50's/early 60's at the huge vehicle disposals site at Hamm in W-Germany, probably by a dealer and sold on to a US serviceman.

When I first knew my wife, her dad had an old ex US lend lease Britishicon Army INDIAN motorcycle in his garden shed. It was hand painted blue but under the blue paint you could clearly see the old WD census C- number and the trace of old 'tac' signs. That was obviously an old lend-lease bike too but generally speaking, disposal of lend lease stuff was tightly controlled, even well up to the 70's when we were still disposing of plant and machinery. CAT dozers (were they D8's as I recall from the big Engineers depot at Ripon?) were one of the last things to go. They all had post war SY and SZ numbers. There was an article in the Royal Engineers Corps Journal about the last of the old wartime kit being disposed of.