Identify tank badges please

[CheeserBeezer]

I was having a rummage around the garage and found these badges. Anybody know what they were fitted to originally please.

[JulianS]

Perhaps like these on the A65 in the 1962 BSA brochure.

[CheeserBeezer]

Yes, they look about right. I thought they might be from one of the 250 models but couldn't place them, visually, Thanks.

[BSA_54A10]

BEcause BSA owned Motoplas the company that made the badges they did a funny thing with them.
In the first season of any new badge they were sort of colour matched to the tank
So the Shooting stars in green got a green one, the A65s witha blue tank got blue ones the Ivory A65L got a creame one etc etc
However when ordering replacements there was  only the choce of red or black listed in parts books .
Thus originals like you have are highly sought after by the rivet counting restorers as the only oher way is the strip the paint off a wrong colour one and try to repaint it.
Problem with that is the paint was vacuum deposited and built up from the inside to the outside then finished off with gold or silvr ( to give the luminessence ) followed by the heavy black backing coat .
That style of badge is usually referred to as the pear shape ( heaven only knows why ) and was introduced for the 1960 season
Originally fitted on to the 4 gallon tanks & C15 trials for the USA market and eventually the UK market
In 61 it was fitted almost universally across the range on every tank that had a plastic badge apart from Gold Stars & the new B40 although by the end of the season the B40 lost the round badge & went to the pear badge
Note that some scramblers & Bantams were supplied with decals only .
Most of the 60 & 61 catalogues show either red or black badges but publicity photos & test bikes photos show couour matched badges where one was fitted
By 62 it was just red or black .

[CheeserBeezer]

Sometimes I realise how little I know! Thanks for the info. Shame they are both for the left side. Anyway, unsurprisingly, they're on Ebay from 8.00 p.m. tonight!

[BSA_54A10]

Wird because I have 2 of the light blue as fitted to the 650 tar model and another dark blue as fitted to the Thynderbolts the following year.
They are all left side badges as are all of the rubber backing plates which no one ever fits so they crack around the screw hole .
BSA did it with the Laurel Wreath round badges fitted to A7 & 10's and with the winged B pressed badges as well .
You could write a novel about tank badges.
Even worse a lot of what you see in the catalogues was not what was on the dealers floors .
The last set of dark blue laurel wreath ones I know of sold for $ 300 and they were used .  Not sure if they were the same shade of blue but the Cataliana Goldies & the blue Super Fash both had blue Laurel Wreath badges on at least one of the tank options.