Kemenyek: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

A look at a 1938 Enots, Benton & Stone Ltd., motor fittings catalogue with fuel/petrol filler caps,"Best" oil pumps, chain oilers, crankcase relief valves, fuel/petrol taps....

Since my last post I've been in Europe and the UK visiting Velocette friends Carl Drees, Heinz Limbers, Gert Boll and of course including Ivan Rhodes and have much information to share with you, but not right now as I'm still collating it all.
I've had this catalogue I'm featuring in this post from the former W.F. Omodei's motorcycle accessory store in Sydney, since they closed in the early 1990's, details of which you may have read other posts of mine on Omodei's previously....
It is a 1938 Enots catalogue and this was the trade name of Benton & Stone Ltd, ironically in Bracebridge Street, Birmingham...name sound familiar?
It's the street Norton was in...how convenient as they used their products....
So did Velocette and other motorcycle manufacturers...
This could be a useful aid to those of you auto-jumblers looking for missing petrol taps, petrol caps etc etc...
Read on.....

I've two other pages from another Enots catalogue, but that's all...could be also prewar or immediately postwar....

Labels: "Best" oil pumps, Benton & Stone Ltd, chain oilers, crankcase relief valve, Enots, Fuel taps, tank filler caps

Friday, September 6, 2013

W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I featured items previously from their counter data books , lets follow some other motorcycle brands items in those books..... Triumph, Royal Enfield, Panther,AJS....

I previously mentioned in the earlier posts, that I've most of the trade catalogues and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, a Sydney Motorcycle accessory house from the 1920's up until the 1990's, including the fascinating made up data books for the counter staff to ascertain products in stock for the major motorcycle brands from the 1930's...

We've featured Velocette, Norton, Ariel and some accessory stuff...

This time it is some other brands.

I notice that Reg Hardy who was the manager of Omodeis for such a long time up until its closure had cut up catalogues for 1938, 1939 to add to his data book....