Thanks for the ID, pzak. I was going to guess Velocette Valiant. Which would have had a likely top speed of 22mph, wound out, tugging that sidecar around with its 150cc engine.
My Aunt Tildie, fed up with being stranded at home when Uncle Stan drove the family Maxwell to work every day struck a bargain over coffee and Danish with her neighbor Alice Gormsby, well known in her youth as a globe-trotting adventuress. A strident latter-day suffragette, Ms. Gormsby couldn't stand to see another female constrained in any way and so offered to teach Aunt Tildie to ride her 1938 Spagthorpe Bulldog factory sidecar combination. The Charlesburg railroad station was chosen as the largest flat paved expanse so as to offer the least obstruction while acquiring the acrobatic and manual dexterity skills needed to pilot not just a motorcycle but one with the off-center gravity of a sidecar attached. It was determined that the sidecar/training wheel would afford a bit more stability while Tildie learned the inexplicable hand and foot motions needed to start, turn, shift, and stop a motorcycle. (At this point she had never even learned to drive a car.) This photo was taken immediately after twenty minutes of convincing that a skirt would in no way prevent one from sitting astride a motorcycle.
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A Zundapp I believe
Thanks for the ID, pzak. I was going to guess Velocette Valiant. Which would have had a likely top speed of 22mph, wound out, tugging that sidecar around with its 150cc engine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocette_Valiant
I wondered whether it was a Ratier? Bring on a game of hunt the correct rocker cover...! D.
Ratier???!!! Sheeps man! Only about three people still alive know what that is.
My Aunt Tildie, fed up with being stranded at home when Uncle Stan drove the family Maxwell to work every day struck a bargain over coffee and Danish with her neighbor Alice Gormsby, well known in her youth as a globe-trotting adventuress. A strident latter-day suffragette, Ms. Gormsby couldn't stand to see another female constrained in any way and so offered to teach Aunt Tildie to ride her 1938 Spagthorpe Bulldog factory sidecar combination. The Charlesburg railroad station was chosen as the largest flat paved expanse so as to offer the least obstruction while acquiring the acrobatic and manual dexterity skills needed to pilot not just a motorcycle but one with the off-center gravity of a sidecar attached. It was determined that the sidecar/training wheel would afford a bit more stability while Tildie learned the inexplicable hand and foot motions needed to start, turn, shift, and stop a motorcycle. (At this point she had never even learned to drive a car.) This photo was taken immediately after twenty minutes of convincing that a skirt would in no way prevent one from sitting astride a motorcycle.
Likely a continental scene (right hand rig), maybe a Douglas ?
i think so,Zündapp KS 601
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