Identify this motorcycle

[piranha-bro2]

*** VTVM... one for the inner circle... lets see whom unmasks that item...no cheating on goggle... well not too quickly... bet it still works, save for any solidified switch lube etc...

Summit like Video To Video Monitor??? Hewlett Packard ... not even called HP!

 

[iis_iis]

Very inventive, Mr Q.... nice gear in the day, many the hour in the company of Messrs Hewlett and Packard, EGG also, Genrad, Tektronix ( a fav ), Solartron, Cossor, Keithly, then there were the german test equipment suppliers, something else, not Seimens, other very elaborate gear W and G, old person nostalgia, sorry you had to read this far... wince...j

 

[Golem 350]

I am sure to be the Bridgestone guru of Laverdisti owning my 1968 350 GTR since the late
1970's. It is fully restored museum quality. Parts and owners are VERY accessible thanks
to an individual who is on the 'net as "Richards Relics". The bikes were generally in the
60's imported into N. America and not much beyond that. If memory serves Brit racer
Bill Smith imported only six 350 GTR models in the late 60's and were road tested in
"Motorcycle Mechanics". Very much like a Laverda they were quite under represented
compared to the Big Three as Kawasaki was late to the party. The distributor was based
in Illinois and traded as Rockford Motors. Build quality was quite good and reliability and
owner satisfaction were on par with the competition. Contact me for any other info as I
was an instant convert when I understood the technical and performance features of all
their models. See also 175 twins and the "scrambler", yeah,,, version the 350 GTO. Its a
keeper.

I live just up the road from bill Smith's.

 

[1200ts]

VTVM stands for vacuum tube volt meter. An obsolete piece of test equipment no one makes any more. Years ago it was a very common as it had a much higher input impedance than the analog meters of the day. I spent years using them in the 1970's before the invention of the modern digital meter. John has most likely more years than me using them.

The poor like me could not afford one of my own and used a Simpson 260 meter which was not good for measuring things like plate voltage.

 

[bazzee]

VTVM stands for vacuum tube volt meter. An obsolete piece of test equipment no one makes any more. Years ago it was a very common as it had a much higher input impedance than the analog meters of the day. I spent years using them in the 1970's before the invention of the modern digital meter. John has most likely more years than me using them.

The poor like me could not afford one of my own and used a Simpson 260 meter which was not good for measuring things like plate voltage.

Modern(ish) equivalent would use FETs as the input devices instead of vacuum tubes. Digital meters are not necessarily better than analogue, in my opinion!

bazzee