Villiers XA&XA

Hi George, Any pics? It's probably a WX of some description like this one:

Regards Dan

G> A villiers 2 stroke watercooled XA/XA has come up for sale, can anyone G> provide any infomation on this as i have never heard of one of these G> before. The owner claims it is very rare.....is this so?

Jack Sizer lists the XA as a 247cc (67x70mm) motorcycle unit dating from

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It's on ebay item number 140144383710 definatly not a W-XII !!

K> It's on ebay item number K> 140144383710 definatly not a W-XII !!

The DZ prefix on the engine number indicates that it is a Mark IX A (Jack Sizer again). Jack mentions the Costarto set as an example of a customer's developments of Villiers' basic product to suit their own requirements - the aditional prefix letters presumably indicated at the Villiers factory that this was a Hamworthy 'special'. He also reproduces an ad. for the set which refers to the Hamworthy patent water-cooled head and exhaust ports, the latter not being evident on the example offered here.

Interesting, yes; Rare, probably - but IMHO probably not worth a great deal without the rest of the set.

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"nickh" wrote (snip):-

Well I got that wrong!

Nick H.