1956 Simplex Article on ebay

[Mike Sal]

Anyone notice that the bike in that article has the key switch in the head light & a winged decal on the handlebar mounting plate?  I wonder what years they used the switch in the light bucket, vs the the tall post, vs the key in the mounting plate?

How about that decal.  Think a lot of bikes had those, or maybe this was one that was dolled up for the magazine staff to review?
Mike Sal

[Mike Sal]

I took a look at the February 1956 magazine article the Rick had posted a while back.  The bike in that article has the ignition switch on the stalk.  I wonder if the article was written in '55 w/ a '55 bike & just didn't get published until early '56.
Mike Sal

[Ricks]

Mike, this is interesting.  My 54 has the hole in the headlight for the switch.  My 53 is on the main head tube on the extension. I wonder if that switched back and forth more than once?

Rick

[Mike Sal]

In the ebay '56 article, you can see something is in that hole on the plate, but I can't tell what it is.  Besides an independant light switch, I don't know what it could be.

Are those little wing decals available?
Mike Sal