Writing down specifications for Australian-built bikes is a tricky business. Production was relatively low and specification varied, perhaps bike-to-bike, even with bigger outfits like A.G. Healing. War time and the difficulty of obtaining steady supply must have made the specification even more varied. To give an idea of the problem, a surviving De Luxe tank still in its original livery is clearly of the type fitted by Healing to their Precision Big Four model, but with a blanking plate covering the hole where the oil filler cap would have been on the earlier machine! A surviving frame is fitted with heavyweight (two-spring) Druids, and not the (four-spring) Mark 2. My machine began as the bare bones of number 2160. The specs would have been:
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