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The example we offer has been in the ownership of the vendor's family in the USA since at least the early 1930s, which is when it last ran. While growing up in the 1930s in Staten Island, New York, USA, William 'Bill' McNee - the vendor's father - became fascinated by his grandfather's old motorcycle with the foreign sounding 'Hildebrand & Wolfmüller – Munchen' decorative script on the rear fender. Bill McNee's interest and enthusiasm was so keen that his grandfather, Bill Brassington, promised him the motorcycle when he got older.

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