Hello Roy,
Welcome to the forum.
Can't help you with Kew query, I've only ever been there once.
I just don't get time to go there.
Nice to have yet another member with a 1940 interest.
Just having a Google, found an extract that would make Rich Payne the bike-nut weep.
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| When 3rd (Ulster) Searchlight Regiment reached Dunkirk, orders were issued for the destruction of all equipment and vehicles. Searchlights were destroyed, lorries sabotaged and "I had to take a sledge-hammer to my motorbike", recalls Bert, who lives at Newtownabbey. His machine was a 500cc side-valve Norton which, as a keen motorcyclist, he hated having to destroy. |