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mmmmmmm Steak n kidney............ don't forget the hp on it!
What's that? Sorry, you were drowned out by the noise I'm making eating my chips with brown sauce. You'll forgive my mocking the curious spectacle that was English engineering (or you won't forgive it, but I'll probably carry on doing it either way 
). All my bicycles are Notts-built Raleighs (and one Norman) with Sturmey-Archer gearhubs, but consider: The Germans have unlimited-speed motorways, so naturally they build cars that'll cruise effortlessly at triple the fastest US speed limit. The Swedes have brutally cold, dark winters, so naturally they build well-lit cars that'll start immediately at seventy below and remain sure-footed even on the slickest ice. Americans are notoriously neglectful of their cars, so the Americans build cars that may not be very good in terms of driving dynamics, but stand up to a level of abuse and neglect not compatible with other nations' cars. The Japanese culture values coordination and harmony, so naturally they build cars that go and go and go and go and then BAM, everything on the car falls apart all at the same time. The French...erm...never mind, bad example. My point is that it rains all the time in England, so naturally the English built cars that failed to start (and bikes that failed to stop) in the rain. Doy? 
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Thermal switch in the air cleaner, the one the vac line is hooked to and then out to the air inlet door. Is that supposed to make a buzzing noise?
No, it's gone leaky. Sometimes these can be made to behave by disconnecting both vacuum hoses and flushing through with spray carb cleaner. Otherwise replace it, see here.
Now that is a sight to behold!