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    I guarantee that this is a genuine factory stamp. Who knows what it is on? I do. :-)
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  • #2
    Too Easy Chris--Try again.
    top-5-harley-davidson-prototypes-of-wwii.jpg
    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.*

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    • #3
      How about this one?
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      • #4
        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

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        • #5
          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

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          • #6
            Originally posted by HDSmitty View Post
            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.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by JoJo357 View Post
              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.
              Last edited by Chris Haynes; 09-29-2020, 02:07 PM.
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              • #8
                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

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HDSmitty View Post
                  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/

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                  • #10
                    Digging up an old post here but are those plates under the cylinders because it was a "factory stroker"?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by knuckcrazy View Post
                      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".
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by knuckcrazy View Post
                        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
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