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Hop-onto one of these Art Deco bikes, and take a cruise on Army/Chavez through The Mission, and yes, I bet the dark-haired, dark-eyed beauties would be in-pursuit. It is a thing of beauty.DANG. Thanks for posting those up. Did you just say everything you know about the Hendersons, or do you (for instance) whether they were prototypes that never went into production? 'Cause the earlier model, at least, is a new one on me.
I can probly guess what engine powered the blue/white bike, but do you happen to know more or less for certain?
I can easily see myself on the '30s bike, being pursued by hot-eyed, lust-crazed women. But then I see myself wrecking the thing. So on the whole I'm glad that bike will never be mine.
I fixed it for you. The Molotov-von Ribbentrop non-aggression pact was voided by Hitler when he began Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. I read a lot of 20th century history. Yes, the name Molotov is the same Molotov associated with his famous 'cocktail.' If Hitler hadn't been so-aggressive, opening war fronts on both the east and the west, the UK probably would have had to sue for peace, as the Nazis prepared to cross the English Channel for the invasion of the UK. The American Lend-Lease agreement was the question on Final Jeopardy, 3-25-2020 under the topic, alliterative 20th century legislation. From another book on 20th century history I recently-read, Lend-Lease (informally before 1941, and under the L-L Act of 1941, later, too-late for Poland and France) gave Harley-Davidsons and Indian motorcycles to the UK, France, Poland, Australia, and Russia. H-D supplied more bikes than Indian by a 3:1 margin. As isolationist members of the Senate preached non-involvement, Roosevelt quietly began supplying our allies with goods and materials to help them prepare for war. This was an informal Lend-Lease, and it began in the mid-1930's. At the end of the decade, Hitler began his conquest of the eastern European countries, and moved west. He conquered Belgium, the Netherlands, and France by the middle of 1940. The official American Lend-Lease Agreement was signed in early 1941 at which point the UK was the only major European power against the Nazis. That's why there were significant numbers of American motorcycles in those countries after WW II. Those bikes are being 'repatriated' to the country of origin, the USA, as demand for them drives the market. I bought a bike from a retired US Army officer, here in Florida, and he had one of the Lend-Lease bikes, now a chopper, which had-been sent to Australia originally, from his research on its origins according to the WLA engine #.The distributor tells me it is a chinese engine, I think they refined the ignition system when they got the design from the russians...
Otherwise almost the same design, BMW R71, Soviet m71 and CJ 750.
Interessting story. The germans gave the design to the russians as part of a tech-tranfser deal, the Moltow (sic: Molotov-von Ribbentrop)-Ribbentrop deal. It was BMW:s last flat head design so it was not a difficult give away. In return they got the opportunity to set up panzer and luftwaffe training facilities in the Soviet.
The Soviets in turn gave the design to China in 1977.