Hi Simon, the point i was trying to make was that greeves clearly did not put every home market bike down on the home market list....there is obviously a reason?
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This looks to be more difficult than I'd hoped - not to say impossible. Bother!
The existence of B 1414, D 1616 and B 1662 confirm that there were a considerable number of 24MX3s numbered higher than the highest UK bike (C 1310).
That's unless Greeves had a completely separate numbering sequence for the exported bikes.
Thanks for the Facebook posting, Brian.
Don't think we'll be able to unravel this I'm afraid - and sadly the same probably applies to the other scrambler models.Last edited by Colin Sparrow; 02/01/2018, 09:31 AM.Colin Sparrow
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There are also some that do not appear to have a '3' or a 'letter' in the number highlighted in following listing I have made. Of course these may be typos from when the numbers were given to me
24MX1025 GRA member restored UK
24MX1030 GRA member UK registered DCK49C
24MX31034 GRA member restored UK
24MX3A1080 GRA member UK
24MX3A1146 Denver USA 4/16
24MX3A1272 Bonhams 10/15 UK registered VVD1S
24MX3A1353 frame only eBay 11/15 at Pickering
24MX3B1001 GRA member UK
24MX3B1414 New Zealand owner
24MX3B1662 Melbourne, Australia owner
24MXC1039 GRA member basket case UK
24MX3D1626 GRA member USA
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Originally posted by John Wakefield View PostThere are also some that do not appear to have a '3' or a 'letter' in the number highlighted in following listing I have made. Of course these may be typos from when the numbers were given to me
24MX1025 GRA member restored UK
24MX1030 GRA member UK registered DCK49C
24MX31034 GRA member restored UK
24MX3A1080 GRA member UK
24MX3A1146 Denver USA 4/16
24MX3A1272 Bonhams 10/15 UK registered VVD1S
24MX3A1353 frame only eBay 11/15 at Pickering
24MX3B1001 GRA member UK
24MX3B1414 New Zealand owner
24MX3B1662 Melbourne, Australia owner
24MXC1039 GRA member basket case UK
24MX3D1626 GRA member USA
So MX31030 is the correct number for my machine.
Good Fortune to all for 2018 & beyond!!
Colin
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Cheers Colin have corrected that, looks like 24MX1025 & 24MXC1039 should have a 3 as well (heads up Garry B)Last edited by John Wakefield; 02/01/2018, 12:01 PM.
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Heard from Garry 1025 is stamped 24MX1025 (no 3) 24MX3C1309 has a 3,
so looks like some were stamped with a 3 but other not. Bit of a buggers muddle.Last edited by John Wakefield; 03/01/2018, 11:00 AM.
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Just re visiting this thread in light of further info. There appears to be a duplicate for 24MX3A1146, I have this in Denver, USA with Keith ? BUT it has since come to light that Mike Palmer built a 4T engined road special road registered MBJ30D with the same frame number. Maybe the number of the bike in USA is a typo. Be interesting to know where MBJ30D is now, it was apparently sold on eBay to someone in Suffolk in June 2016 for ?1507 and currently on SORN
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