Factory number

[Chris Haynes]

I guarantee that this is a genuine factory stamp. Who knows what it is on? I do. :-)

[JoJo357]

Too Easy Chris--Try again.
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Perhaps one of the most interesting and rarest prototypes was this dual engine powerplant designed for a Canadian tank. You might suspect that each engine drove one side of the tank, but they were actually connected to a single heavy duty rear end. Produced in 1943, the tank that this unit was supposed to power never materialized and Harley-Davidson still retains this single prototype.

*M.A.D.*

[Chris Haynes]

How about this one?

[HDSmitty]

How about Guam Police ? I know that chief judge Don Dzuric has a WLJ from Jakarta or someplace similar so this is not just a wild guess. Smitty

[JoJo357]

If i remember correctly Chris, wasn't that a publicized mis-stamp by the Motor Company? Or, anyone with a WLG SN has stamped it on their own--->
--->Maybe like this guy-----> https://youtu.be/X8B2zQtZpys

*M.A.D.*

[JoJo357]

How about Guam Police ? I know that chief judge Don Dzuric has a WLJ from Jakarta or someplace similar so this is not just a wild guess. Smitty

Smitty, H-D made WLH and WLJ stamped Motors, but they were issued after WW11. The WLH (Holland), sent to the Dutch, and the WLJ's were sent to *(Japan).

*M.A.D.*
*P.s. And a WLG motor was anonymously sent to Chris.

[Chris Haynes]

If i remember correctly Chris, wasn't that a publicized mis-stamp by the Motor Company? Or, anyone with a WLG SN has stamped it on their own--->
--->Maybe like this guy-----> https://youtu.be/X8B2zQtZpys

*M.A.D.*

It is indeed a mis-stamp. The bike is a 1943 WLC. Rumor has it that is was stamped shortly after the hourly beer ration.
Here is another picture of the same bike after the error was corrected.

[HDSmitty]

I may be wrong (did I just say that?) but I don't believe the WLJ was sent to Japan. I'm sure it was Indonesia someplace, maybe Java or Jakarta. There was an article somewhere but it escapes me. I saw Dons bike at the Terryville (Yankee) meet, quite a conversation piece. Smitty

[JoJo357]

I may be wrong (did I just say that?) but I don't believe the WLJ was sent to Japan. I'm sure it was Indonesia someplace, maybe Java or Jakarta. There was an article somewhere but it escapes me. I saw Dons bike at the Terryville (Yankee) meet, quite a conversation piece. Smitty

There's an old Forum Thread on this WLJ Fiasco Smitty--probably under WLJ. As far as my information is concerned, here's the source.
www.theliberator.be
http://www.theliberator.be/

*M.A.D.*

[knuckcrazy]

Digging up an old post here but are those plates under the cylinders because it was a "factory stroker"?

[Rubone]

Digging up an old post here but are those plates under the cylinders because it was a "factory stroker"?

Generally those were for compression reduction. In the catalogs they are "compression plates".

[T. Cotten]

Digging up an old post here but are those plates under the cylinders because it was a "factory stroker"?

Good eye, Knuckcrazy!

I cut some like that just to reduce compression,.. but they were only half that thick.

....Cotten