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motorcycle, and succeeded in 1937 by the WL. The R-series range included 45-solo, R, RL and RLD models. The RL, like the DL before it, featured a
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Clark Gable's RL45 in Kiehl's
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Wilson, Hugo (1993). "The World's
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