This is the story of this bike from Mats... The frame is from 1919 and the engine is earlier 1917 I think. But it is the right engine according to the registration papers from early 1920.

It´s a funny story how I found this bike. I met a man downtown and he asked me how much a motorcycle frame was worth and I answered that depending on which bike it belonged to it could be worth 5 pounds and all the way up to a lot of pounds. But he said, If you can`t give me a fair price I will not tell you where to find it, and we left each other but I couldn`t forget so a couple if days later I asked an old postman there to find this man and he gave me an adress to his sommerhouse far out in the woods abaot two hours driving from home. At last I came to the end of the road and a lonely house and old lady. She got very angry than I told her the story bacause it was her frame and the man had nothing to do with it. I asked her If she still had it and she said  "can it stiill be behind the barn there I put it in 1939" and it was. It was a frame a very rusty front mudguard and the chainguard and if I wanted the rest of the parts she had and I said yes and she stared diggin beside the road and sha came up with a gearbox, brakes. I also got two pictures of her husband on the bike so I was very happy than I was driving back.

A year later I was on my way to an autojumble with a lot of T and A-Ford parts on my truck and was stopped by a man and he asked how much I wanted I said a price and he said a lower price + on engine and a motorcycletank and I said yes and we went ower to his place and loaded of the parts and I got my money a Velocette 500 tank 1947 and the original engine for my P&M.