This is the Service Manual for the Velocette Viper, Venom, MSS, 'Clubman' and 'Scrambler' Models, F484/9R (1967).

The Service Manuals were originally issued for Agents and Repairers, a separate less detailed Owner's Handbook being supplied with the machine. The content is appropriate to the parts and materials available at the time of manufacture; however, much has changed since and although substantial parts of the manual are still appropriate care should be taken is using it as a guide. For instance, modern tyres will use higher pressures than those quoted in this guide; alternative oils are available that might give improved performance; some tweaking of carburetter settings may be required to allow for current fuels.

The owner should regard this manual as a starting point. Much advice (and debate!) is available, not least from the Owners Club and a very active technical forum, for the practical use of these machines in a modern context.

Cleanup of the second edition of the Owner's Handbook issued with every new motorcycle by Velocette. This issue is dated July 1956.

Rather than slavishly follow the page layout, I've set the articles out in major subject areas. However, where cross-references exist in the text - the index being a major example - I've retained the original numbers so that referring to a 'real' manual is straightforward (I hope). I've tried to ensure that references are hyper-linked to the relevant parts of the articles.

Publication number F469/4R, printed January 1965.

This is the service guide for the spring frame model, although there is much in common with the rigid-frame models.

Publication F.469/4R/400, January 1965

Issued as a guide to the complete servicing and repair of spring-framed MAC models. Intended primarily for Agents and Repairers.

 Publication number F466/2R, August 1955

F50/7R - Eighth edition published October 1955.

Service manual for rigid-framed MAC models, odd references to MOV and MSS as well

Supplement to manual F50/4R for the MAC model. This applies to models with the Velocette telescopic fork and alloy engine.

Publication F236/4R, January 1950. Supersedes previous edition F236/2R.

Diagrams cleaned up and the odd error corrected. 

This is the Veloce manual F42/3R covering the overhead cam models from 1925 - 1931. In practice it is a mixture of instruction book and parts manual, as several pages at the back of the manual are cutaway diagrams annotated with part numbers, although this only covers the engine, gearbox and rear hub.

As with other references on this site, the text has been OCR'd from a scanned source and the diagrams 'cleaned up' to remove most of the effects of aging, use and simple limitations of the print technology when the manual was originally produced. As an experiment, the manual has been formatted in a PDF document ready for A5 double-sided printing and is available from this site.

1951 GTP 250cc two-stroke instruction book

The 1958 service manual for the 200cc flat-twin Valiant

The first MSS Owners Handbook published for the new MSS 500cc RS-framed model in 1954.

Combined MOV and MAC instruction book March 1937