matching numbers

https://www.accessnorton.com/Norton...d-a-question-for-you.26664/page-2#post-400065
since i am so late to this thread, i will gently suggest the only way i see this working is if there was such a thing as a "orphan thread".

you post either frame, engine or GBox with serial number for which you have no other matching parts...


:oops:

sounds good, easy & why not?

can't say i know much about this
https://www.accessnorton.com/Norton...ion-and-a-question-for-you.26664/#post-399840
The Vincent club has a registrar who can tell you if the upper and rear frame numbers for your bike are correct for the engine. The frame numbers when new were always different from engine numbers, usually by a factor of 1900, but not always.
One of my Rapides has Comet frame parts.
When I provided the bike's numbers to the club, the Registar informed me that the original upper frame is on a running bike in Sweden and the original rear frame on a running bike in Scotland. I haven't bothered to contact those owners because matching numbers aren't very important to me.
Using information provided by the club Registrar, local club members here have done several swaps to put original frames back with their engines. Often this kills two birds with one stone, correcting both bikes involved in the swap.
It seems that in the 50s, 60s and 70s when matching numbers on machinery was of very little or no importance, anything went. People assembled all sorts of combos just to get a runner.
So Jdubs suggestion not only is a good one, it already exists and is in use in at least one other club.


Glen
 
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