Hello,
If you could PM me an email address I can send you copy of an original works drawing of the top of the machine showing the layout of all the controls & when enlarged should give you a good idea of the correct switch (It’s actually on the very back of the headlamp). I’m sorry but I don’t know how to post images on the forum.

Roy.F

Apart from the ball-ended levers, and that odd diamond on top of the tank, it looks very much as it left the factory. Period photos suggest that most bikes had black enamelled wheel rims and handlebars, but perhaps chrome items came through occasionally, so I wouldn’t criticise them. I think that the horn button/dipswitch is a “Clearhooters” product, rather than the original Lucas, but a better quality product, and again a minor detail.
Brian

Hanging from a hook in my workshop I have an item from that late 1940’s era that you almost never see these days. It is an air filter on a little cast alloy inlet, curved so that the pan of the filter body sits vertically when installed. You can see them in some, but not all works photos. It is amazing how much quieter a Flyer is with one fitted, as it kills all that induction roar that you get above about half-throttle. I also have another fitting rarely seen on the post-war Flyers, which is a chain-oiler tank, in triangular shape, with rounded corners, that clamps onto the left-hand side centre chain-stay of the frame. A long time ago I saw an accessories leaflet that listed both items, but how many were sold later, or fitted from new, I don’t know, and finding out the latter would need further study of the dispatch books. (The tank is unlike the 1939 Clubman Special fitting, being smaller, and opposite handed ).
Brian