Identify Amal remote carby bowl

Was sorting out some old british carby parts in the shed and came
across an Amal style remote carby bowl which is different to every
other one I've seen.

It looks to be early twenties (prewar) manufacture as it is made from
bronze as early Amals were.

The bowl has no markings.

The bowl lid is stamped Binks on the raised hexi nut boss (which later
became part of Amal) and Amal Birmingham is cast into it.

However, the BIG difference is that the banjo fitting is vertical and
not horizontal.

So it is either to be fitted on a carby body with a vertical (side
feed) banjo OR quite possibly it is made to be remotely mounted on the
frame away from the carby body in some way.

Has anyone any idea what this is off of (either carby or M/cycle) ?

 

Might well be an Alcohol unit ? ( no no I mean methanol)

 

Here's a photo so you can see what it looks like.

http://users.picknowl.com.au/~gloaming_agnet/info.html

 

Looking at the picture has to be pre wwII but last time I saw something
even remotely like it was off an old Indian from the mid 1930's
I ran a modern version on a 500cc Bsa around 1971 when racing as the
bowl was a twist and drop but was much more robustly built ( on pure
Alchohol)

 

Of course. That has to be the logical (and correct) answer.

I hadn't thought of that.

It also explains why the banjo is about the fuel level height, So it
aligns with the main jet in the suggested orientation.

I recon there is a mounting adapter with a 90 degree offset in the box
as well, which would have been used with it.

I showed it to a neighbour out the back who used to race AJS in the
fifties and he'd never seen anything like it.

Thanks for that response.

It's no good to me as I'm purely Dellorto on my bikes, so it's off to
Ebay for this one.

Cheers all

Rob

 

There is a bloke named George in Tasmania who would know what it is off
I would guess that what he doesn't know about motorcycles, wouldn't be worth
knowing
Can't think of his last name though or where he lives, he has a couple of
sheds full of stuff from carby pieces to complete running and registered
bikes,
Someone might know of him
What about Kevin Gleeson, have you heard of him Kev?
He goes to a lot of swap meets so would hazard a guess that he has seen
something like that before

 

Doesn't ring a bell. Rough idea of which part of Tas he lives in?

Kev

 

Not sure Kev, I will try and find where I saw his profile.
It was on a Flicker site some time ago and there was a lot of photos of
rallies and sales in Tasmania