Rototiller 35 PR Motors job card.

[charlie]

Whilst at MERL yesterday cataloging Geo Monro drawings, (almost completed now), I found a job card with PR Motors name on it. It shows some of the operations to assemble a 35, this seems to confirm they assembled some if not all the 35’s. It also shows under the list of parts, ‘engine complete as supplied by Levis Ltd’, something else to investigate. Copy of card below, quality of reproduction is not god as original was blurred.

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[will-haggle]

Levis were manufacturers of two stroke motorcycles manufactured by Butterfields Ltd of Birmingham, England, founded in 1911, while they were considered ride to work machines, they did win the 250cc TT in 1920 and ’22. In the ’30’s four strokes came on the scene including an 250cc OHC model and a pushrod 500. Production ceased in 1940.

[charlie]

Alan, thanks for that piece of information, another piece of the puzzle solved.

[will-haggle]

A bit more on the Levis, for the 1922 TT they had a momentous innovation, an alloy barrel, the alloy jacket was cast onto an iron liner. It is pretty clear why Monro chose them!

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