Motor stampings question

PM99 is the engine shop number, which is stamped after the engine has been built. It will also have another number (60xxx), which is the finished number for the assembled bike and this number will also appear on the frame, if it still has it's original frame. For K11M2, this means 'K' is for the manufactured year 1955, '11M' means 500 Manx and '2' means type two frame. The earlier frame or Gardengate is the type '1' frame, although it is not normally referred as this. The '2' was soon dropped, as the earlier frame was no longer made for these models.

When the first Featherbed Dominator  was introduced it was designated as 12/2, meaning Model 12 with type 2 frame, but the '/' was quickly dropped and just became 122 for the 500 Dominator, Model 88

Barry Stickland

Make you want to press a "Like" button in this modern era,or just a means to flag a posting that has some special content for the enthusiasts.  

Whats the chances "webmaster" ?

This forum is  not only for answering questions or  queries, but imparting that long held knowledge to the new, younger, uninitiated of us.  There is a lot of knowledge out there in the hands of the generation who lived with these machines; be nice to recognise it and preserve it somehow.

We do it with the "Compendiums" for the old style communication, don't want to loose that  knowledge because we have moved "forward" with communications. 

Its a bit like photographs;  there are dozens from the 50's through the 80's. Now we have the means to capture anything and everything, how much of it is seen or shared outside of the digital world it is created in?

Jon