The BSA M20 was produced by the thousand during WW2, though not so many remain in their original form 80 years later. My M20 was shipped to the War Office in 1944. It then has an unknown history, although several M20s from the same batch have shown up on war service in North Africa, Europe and the in UK. My M20 was bought by me in 1966 from Pride and Clarke, a south-London motorbike dealer who had just bought a batch from the army as war surplus. All they did was fit number plates and then sold them for £30 each. Because they had not been previously registered, they had 1966 number plates and needed no MoT, a source of considerable amazement to the various police officers who stopped me. I used the bike for a daily 20-mile each-way commute from Englefield Green in Surrey to Kensington in London for a full year. It never let me down. I took it off the road in 1968 and it has been garaged since then.