A new Enfield for my collection

[Phil may]

1979 SA 3 speed with dyno hub. Should clean up nicely

 

[Phil may]

 

[raleighnut]

Nice

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Are these Enfields "real" or are they badge engineered jobs? I always notice an Enfield fitted with an engine on the rare occasion I see one out on the road, but I can't say I'm familiar with Enfield push bikes though.

 

[raleighnut]

Are these Enfields "real" or are they badge engineered jobs? I always notice an Enfield fitted with an engine on the rare occasion I see one out on the road, but I can't say I'm familiar with Enfield push bikes though.

Enfield started off making Bikes before Motorcycles, another gun maker similar to BSA (British Small Arms)

 

[raleighnut]

Birmingham Small Arms I think.

Edit. Yes, for once I'm right. Hang out the bunting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Small_Arms_Company

Ach, I think you may be right I know it had something to do with guns though.

 

[Swifty]

I bought a Royal Enfield badged vindec not a bad little bike but not quite the real thing

 

[Swifty]

The one I bought was advertised as a revelation it wasn't but bought it anyway I've only seen one revelation in the flesh and would love to have one but a bit out of my range

 

[midlife]

Enfield had stopped making bikes by the time I got into bikes in the 70's. I wonder if Brown Brothers bought the name?

 

[Swifty]

This was what I ended up buying

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Enfield had stopped making bikes by the time I got into bikes in the 70's. I wonder if Brown Brothers bought the name?

That's what I was getting at. There were/are plenty of brand names still being stuck on bikes, where the original manufacturer and the factory where they were made, is long gone. In the early 80s, when I had a Raleigh racer, one of kids I used to hang around with got a new BSA racer. It was virtually identical in every respect, other than I remember mine had Weinmann alloy brake calipers (with suicide levers of course!) and his ones were chromed steel. It might have had a different headbadge, but I wouldn't mind betting it came off the same production line.