Laverda tooling - what happened??

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redax5 said:
Not really seeing that issue here in Aussie, bikes are still regularly ridden and high mileage as well
I'm still working 7 days a week in a futile attempt to get on top of my workload

These days we hold a Laverda rally and approx 70% of the 50+ bikes that attend have my engines in them
Once I've done that other 30% I'll close up shop and sell off all my parts
Going to learn Lawn Bowling
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A very different situation in Europe.
Hold a Laverda rally and you'll see bikes but less and less Laverda.
There's a big Laverda do in Breganze next July, the 75th anniversary of the marque..
There'll be even more camper vans than at the 70th.
And Western Europe is small compared to Australia.
Very few of us ride the bikes.
Paul
 
"The only tools I can think of that might be useful would be press tools for sheet metal (tanks, 750 side panels, etc)"
sorry Paul ,but I waas witness to several sheet metal press tools being left outside and coated with a liberal amount of pock marked rust, eg the tool for the top of the RGS two piece tank assembly and others 24 years ago, before the ex machine agrico factory was redeveloped, (if that ever happenned) they were beyond use, and recovery, when working you and I know that those press tools would have been polished to a finish near chrome, because any little flaw in them would as likley as not show through on the finished surface of the tank. So they went as well!
CLEM
 
Hi Clem. yes, I think we can assume it's all gone now. A shame, but the business world moves on I guess, whilst we hold our bikes precious to us, for decades and decades.

I think it was you who told me about a load of 350/500 tanks being abandoned in a big pile?

Anyway, here we are in 2009, mooching about the old factory, hoping to uncover a cellar door, leading to a long-forgotten secret stash of SFC race-prepared bikes, or, at least, a bucket full of Laverda-stamped bolts :-)
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Haggis said:
Hi Clem. yes, I think we can assume it's all gone now. A shame, but the business world moves on I guess, whilst we hold our bikes precious to us, for decades and decades.

I think it was you who told me about a load of 350/500 tanks being abandoned in a big pile?

Anyway, here we are in 2009, mooching about the old factory, hoping to uncover a cellar door, leading to a long-forgotten secret stash of SFC race-prepared bikes, or, at least, a bucket full of Laverda-stamped bolts :)
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This is the "new " factory constructed just outside of the town in `73 / `74 ? ...... Shame to see it like that so soon ...........

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Thanks Paul ...... I can see now how the windows line up with this image of the interior from the 1950`s ....

Reproduction isn`t great here , but on the magazine image , you can see the " quartered " upper window panels , which still survived in the 2009 shot .........

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