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The Registration Book and the Licence Disc will bear the registration numbers that have
been allotted to your machine and will also show the date the Road Licence expires.
Your number plates must then be painted, in white upon a black background, with the
registration numbers in characters of even thickness as follows:
The numbers on the front plate must be 1¾" high, 1¼" wide and c" thick with spaces of
½" between each two characters,
The numbers on the rear plate must be 2½" high, 1¾" wide and a" thick with spaces
½" between each two characters.
The Licence Disc must be enclosed in a water-tight container, having a transparent front,
and this must be fixed to the machine in a conspicuous position, near the front and on
the left-hand side.
It is not legally necessary Co carry your Driving Licence, Insurance Certificate and
Registration Book while driving your machine.
Ignition Suppressors
As required by law all machines for the Home Market are issued with an approved
type of radio interference suppressor already installed.
Speedometer
A speedometer MUST be fitted and it MUST BE so ILLUMINATED that it is possible
to read the dial after lighting up time.
Lamps
During the official " L I G H T I N G U P " hours the machine must exhibit a white light.
facing forwards a red light facing rearwards. The rear number plate must be adequately
illuminated by a white light.
Each front electric light bulb M U S T be marked with its "Wattage*1. (Beware of cheap,,
imported, bulbs that do not have this marking).
All motorcycles made by us have electric equipment that complies with the law regarding
position, size of bulbs, marking on bulbs and the correct illumination of the rear number
plate,
SERVICE
The Service and Repair Department is situated in Burrage Grove, Plumstead,
London, S.E.18, and is open on Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 a.m. to 12.55 p.m.—
2.0 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. It is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays.
It exists for the purposes of;
(a) Giving technical assistance verbally or through the post.
(b) Supplying spare parts over the counter or through the post.
(c) Repairing and re-conditioning machines, or parts of machines, of our make.
Burrage Grove is the first turning on the left from Burrage Road when entering
Burrage Road from the Plumstead Road. (See final paragraph below).
The nearest Railway Station is WOOLWICH ARSENAL, SOUTHERN REGION
RAILWAY.
This Station is five minutes walk from our Service Depot in Burrage
Grove. There is an excellent service of electric trains from Charing Cross, Waterloo,
Cannon Street and London Bridge Stations, Southern Region Railway.
Bus routes 53, 163, 54, 99, 122 and 127 pass the end of Burrage Road (one minute from
the Service Depot),
Bus routes 186, 75 and 161 serve Beresford Square which is three minutes walk from
the Service and Repair Department.
Visitors from the North can pass into Woolwich via the Free Ferry between North
Woolwich and Woolwich. North Woolwich is a British Railways terminus and is also
served by Bus routes. There is also a tunnel under the River Thames at this point for
foot passengers.
The Free Ferry accommodates all types of motor vehicles and there is a
very frequent service. The Southern landing stage is less than a mile from the Service
Depot.
Visitors arriving by road, if they are strangers to the locality, should enquire for
Beresford Square, Woolwich.
Arsenal should be followed in an Easterly direction for about four hundred yards, and
Burrage Road is the second turning on the right after leaving the Square.
Grove is then the first turning on the left.
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