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Kleftiwallah · Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire

Good morning chaps, where can I buy short (3-4 yards) of electrical wiring in various colours and trace colours to re-wire the B.S.A. trike?

I don't want to buy a drum of 100 meters when I only need a few yards!

Looking forward to your leads.

Cheers, Tony.

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:21 am Post subject:

I've used this firm a few times and would do so again - https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk

Kleftiwallah · Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire

Good afternoon Bitumen boy, I saw this website whilst searching but I didn't see any coloured cable with a tracer colour. I'll drop them an email. Thanks for the recomendation.

The colour chart I saw had every colour combination you could think of for every consievable circuit. Do you (or anyone else) have a simplyfied colour coding regime?

Cheers, Tony.

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:22 pm Post subject:

It's there, but you have to select the main colour and then the tracer colour from the drop-down menus.

Kleftiwallah · Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire

Thanks for that info', I shall persevere! Cheers, Tony.

Kleftiwallah · Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire

Follow on question chaps, so what were the cable colours used in the 1930's?

Cheers, Tony.

Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

Vehicle Wiring Products sells the full range per metre

Standard colours for Lucas electrics but a lot pre-50's and motorcycles into the 60's used their own or modified.

Prewar Lucas cables were different colours to post war
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Kleftiwallah · Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire

Bitumen boy:- received my first batch of cable the other day. Thanks for the intro'.

Cheers, Tony. Smile