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    The phrase '.....something for the weekend sir!' has certain connotations for Englishmen that you foreigners, colonials and wild antipodeans out there in Forumland might like to smile about. During the 40's, 50's and 60's when men used to visit the barbers, at the end of your haircut, you'd go to pay the usual 5 shillings - and the barber would point to a large rack of 'rubbers' or contraceptives and ask whether sir would like '....something for the weekend....?'. Being sheepish boys with equally sheepish girlfriends, you'd sheepishly say yes and sneak a packet into your pocket for the princely sum of 3shillings and 6pence!

    I happened to be 'seeing' a nice girl in the village where I lived and it got that I was 'having a haircut' almost every day - or certainly every week! A couple of months later I learned that the village barber lived just a few houses away from and was good friends with my girlfriends parents AND used to see me going there to take her out....... obviously putting two and two together! I never went back there for a haircut...........

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    I kinda like the old bikes, but can not afford a real WW 2 one. Thus I have 2 post war bikes, a ruskie copy of the BMW R 71 with driven side car and the other a chicom copy of the same bike with a non driven side car.
    Some day I will get around to painting the ruskie in Lw blue and mounting my MG 42 on it. The chicom is painted ruskie OD green with a red star on the side car. That one stays as is to represent a ruskie for reeenactments and parades, usv.
    Also shown is a 2. chicom (on the left) that I'm going to sell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    The phrase '.....something for the weekend sir!' has certain connotations for Englishmen that you foreigners, colonials and wild antipodeans out there in Forumland might like to smile about. During the 40's, 50's and 60's when men used to visit the barbers, at the end of your haircut, you'd go to pay the usual 5 shillings - and the barber would point to a large rack of 'rubbers' or contraceptives and ask whether sir would like '....something for the weekend....?'. Being sheepish boys with equally sheepish girlfriends, you'd sheepishly say yes and sneak a packet into your pocket for the princely sum of 3shillings and 6pence!

    I happened to be 'seeing' a nice girl in the village where I lived and it got that I was 'having a haircut' almost every day - or certainly every week! A couple of months later I learned that the village barber lived just a few houses away from and was good friends with my girlfriends parents AND used to see me going there to take her out....... obviously putting two and two together! I never went back there for a haircut...........

    As the Bike was delevered on late Thursday thought the title was quite fitting, there was a comedy sketch years ago regarding the saying and set in a barbers shop, after the barber delivered the famous line, the customer replied "yes please", the barber then placed a lawn mower on the counter.............

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    I kinda like the old bikes, but can not afford a real WW 2 one. Thus I have 2 post war bikes, a ruskie copy of the BMW R 71 with driven side car and the other a chicom copy of the same bike with a non driven side car.
    Some day I will get around to painting the ruskie in Lw blue and mounting my MG 42 on it. The chicom is painted ruskie OD green with a red star on the side car. That one stays as is to represent a ruskie for reeenactments and parades, usv.
    Also shown is a 2. chicom (on the left) that I'm going to sell.
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    There are a lot of Russianicon copies that are given a make over to produce a BMW R 71, some are realy good only the rivet counters could tell them apart.

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    Did the U.S. Army have any other make of dispatch rider's motor bike other than the Harley Davidson? Back in the 1960s my father purchased an ex MOD dispatch rider's Harley Davidson from a chap who had bought it shortly after the war as war surplus and civilianised it by removing any remaining military kit and repainting it. He also made his own side car for it and it was used as family transport until he sold it to my father. I am try to find a photograph of it which I have somewhere which I will post if it can be found.

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    My girfriends dad had an Indian motorbike that he purchased from a motorcycle shop in Swindon - who bought it from the huge post war WD auctions. It had been painted blue and in the early 70's was sat forlorn in his garden shed. You could still decipher the old WD C- number and army signs under the now faded blue paint. I seem to recall that he told me that tyres were impossible to obtain by 1970.

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    I know it's off topic, but can anyone shed any light on this? It was posted on faceache with no captions. I'd like one as a weekend runabout though.
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    The link below will shed some light on it.....

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    After some searching over the weekend I found these 2 pictures of my father's Harley Davidson in an album next to my desk and while not the best photographs in the world they are the only ones which I have available at present. I have blanked out my father's face as he doesn't wish to appear on the net. The pictures are captioned in the album as it being a 1946 bike although I always thought it was of wartime vintage and the 1946 date maybe the first civilian registration in the U.K.. It looks like the original military panniers have survived onto this combination. Interestingly the side-car was home built/made by the previous owner to my farther who purchased it as MOD surplus.


    It's a long shot but does any-one know if this bike has survived??? I believe that my father swapped it for a pre-war Rover 10 car in the early 1960s.

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    It's a long shot but does any-one know if this bike has survived??? I believe that my father swapped it for a pre-war Rover 10 car in the early 1960s.

    You may be able to contact the DVLA to see if the registrtion is still in use for a motorcycle, not sure if they will give any other details out, you could also see if they have a classic or vintage Harley Davidson club in the UKicon, I would say 1946 is the Bikes first registration and is WD bike for sure.

    There is the Historic Military Vehicle forum you could also ask for info etc regarding finding the bike.

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