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Posed or was the bayonet left on for repeatability/better harmonics? Or maybe he was just too damn close to those damn Russki's.Being of Bukovinian/Galacian descent I'd like to call them alot worse. But we can't offend anyone these days can we
 
Good day Fellow Nutz :) New day new picture :)

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I'm still amazed at how much I liked the grease gun I fired. Probably the only GM related product that will EVER get a thumbs up from me...
 
You're right. I FU!

M3A1 for sure.

My tiny mind was confused what what I mistook for a cocking crank.

It is now back in its cage. Next time it pulls this, it gets fed to the cat.
 
Looks like an Indian "Power Plus": 61 cubic inches (1000cc if you are used to little bikes), about a 1916 from the look of it.

The squarish gas tank between the frame rails lasted a long time, up to about 1928.

You can see the valve-cages quite plainly in this photo; not a hard motor to do a top-end job on. Harley motor was much the same but it was IoE, a true F-head, lasted until '29 when the true flatheads came out.
 
smellie said:
Looks like an Indian "Power Plus": 61 cubic inches (1000cc if you are used to little bikes), about a 1916 from the look of it.

The squarish gas tank between the frame rails lasted a long time, up to about 1928.

You can see the valve-cages quite plainly in this photo; not a hard motor to do a top-end job on. Harley motor was much the same but it was IoE, a true F-head, lasted until '29 when the true flatheads came out.
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I wondered if that was an Indian. They kicked Harley's ass for years.
 
harryhand said:
R.C.M.P dealt with speeders a little more harsh back in the day! :)
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That's not actually RCMP - that's Alberta Provincial Police. If interested, a clear, full-page version of the photo may be found on page 170 of S.W. Horrall, The Pictorial History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , 1973: McGraw-Hill Ryerson for the RCMP. The copyright of the photo is credited to the Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta.

The APP was formed in March 1917 to take over Alberta provincial policing duties from the RNWMP. It was disbanded again and the members mostly transferred to the RCMP in 1932, after the RCMP had expanded to become a countrywide force and the provincial government was having trouble finding budget for the provincial force, especially for training and equipment.

According to the book, APP patrols like this were used to attempt to combat the Alberta bootlegging trade during the American Prohibition era: bootleggers made booze in illegal stills in Canada, then ran it across the border into the US and were well-organized and often armed.

The CGN posters who identified the bike as an Indian are indeed correct. I base this statement not upon my own vast personal knowledge of motorcycles but solely on the fact that, in the original photo, the word "Indian" is clearly visible on the fuel tank...

I find the firearms even more interesting: the machine gun is a Lewis gun that looks like it started life as an aircraft version, possibly stripped off the top flexible wing-mount of a scrapped SE5a: it has a single spade grip in back, which the officer is grasping in his left hand, and a shrunken cooling jacket around the barrel.

Meanwhile, the officer in the sidecar is holding a German submachinegun, either a Bergmann MP18 or MP28: wood stock, side-mounted magazine fitting into a well with a solid-steel extended lip, and a heavy steel perforated barrel sleeve. Possibly again surplus WW1 war materiel, this time from the other side and either captured by Canadian troops or acquired as war reparations?
 
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