Thanks reinie! Any chance you can send a photo of the 30.50 to [email protected]?Completely different engine with the cylinder tilted backward. Looks like a generator (possibly belt driven) in front of the cylinder. Definitely a different model. I got my book out and it most resembles a model called the 30.50.
my guess. . .
it was a twin. it had a failure in the front cylinder that was cost prohibitive to repair.
so the front cylinder was simply removed and the bike was used, and photographed, as a single.
i believe the only single models The Wigwam produced that had the cylinder leaning rearward were back in the original "camelback" tank days
let me correct myself. . .
since my last posting i have stumbled across a pic of a 1913 Indian with this engine cinfiguration.
if i could remember where i found the pic i would attach it here.
but i am getting old and feeble minded( oh.. ok. . .i have always been feebled minded).
i knew i wanted that pic when i saw it, but i could not recall where i needed to show it.
yes. . i was there during the 60's and 70's.