► Photothread: Motorcycles of Wehrmacht

[AlifRafikKhan]

Thank you very much, Bert!

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can anyone identify this motorcycle?

Imagw from EBay
Sturm78

[kerryboo]

Hi Sturm78,
The tank badge looks very much like an Ardie,
Kerry.

[phylo_roadking]

Hi Kerry - I don't think so, the Ardie badge had a distinctive "front bump" that's missing above...

[phylo_roadking]

Bingo - the badge, distinctive front fork and very distinctive interrupted finning gave it away...

It's a TWN BD250





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_(TWN)

[kerryboo]

Well spotted, and great knowledge Phylo,
Respect,
Kerry.

[phylo_roadking]

It's funny how things are cyclic in life....

As a four-year-old I remember seeing the brand name "Triumph" on big alluminium pans etc. in the school dining room...four years old in a two-teacher country school, both parents were the two teachers!....and no child care then! So I started school "early"....and thinking "isn't that the name of a type of motorbike?" (Ok, I was thinking of the British Triumph....)....

Roll forward many years and I discovered that TWN ("Triumph") like other German marques survived after the war by diversifying and scrabbling a living in other markets - in the case of TWN, aluminium kitchenware under the "Triumph" brand! They also made typewriters...and were one of Europe's largest quality typewriter manufacturers for decades. They just survived into the word processor era - but I don't think they've survived into the PC era

And without knowing any of that - once upon a time, my dad bought me a portable "Triumph" typewriter...!

(IIRC Adler did the same, they ended up making typewriters...)

And finally, in one of the all-time great mistakes - ten years ago this coming weekend I was standing scratching my head looking at a REALLY expensive, top-of-the-range, boxed action figure of Steve McQueen on his "Great Escape" Triumph in the old Forbidden Planet scifi and film tie-in shop on Oxford Street in London....and wondering what was so WRONG with the whole thing...

Someone must have ordered the whole thing over the phone from the U.S from a European manufacturer - because that lovely 1/6th scale action figure of "Hilts" in his cut-off sweats and chinos was sitting on a TRIUMPH all right - a beautiful scale replica of a postwar TWN 250!

[AlifRafikKhan]

Hi, maybe BMW R 12?

Source: http://www.historicalwarmilitariaforum. ... ad/page-33

[Sturm78]

phylo wrote
It's a TWN BD250

Thank you very much for your help, phylo.

AlifRafikKhan wrote
Hi, maybe BMW R 12?

Yes.


On the other hand, Can anyone identify this motorcycle?

Image from Ebay
Regards Sturm78

[SIS 5]

Hi Sturm 78,

the motorcycle on Your pic is a DKW type SB, but I cannot tell You the exact type. It could be the type SB 200, SB 250 or SB 350.

Regards

Bert

[AlifRafikKhan]

Thank you sturm78...

[Sturm78]

Bert wrote
the motorcycle on Your pic is a DKW type SB, but I cannot tell You the exact type. It could be the type SB 200, SB 250 or SB 350

Thank you for your help, Bert

Regards Sturm78

[Maxschnauzer]

I am unable to ID this logo. I will bow to the experts.

[phylo_roadking]

Max, that's an interesting...and rare!...one; it seems to be a variety of DKW RT logo....note the other DKW logo on the flywheel cover - click on this link the pic is too big!

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/6 ... m_1939.JPG

EDIT: here we are, a better view!




It appears to be unique to the DKW RT 100, a 97cc machine, rather than the later and far more common RT 125.

[Maxschnauzer]

Yes, looks like it. The front fork with the drilled out gusset between the tubes seem to match as well. Nice work, thanks phylo.