Own up then. Is the Ariel fanatic who forced me to pay silly money for this photo a poster on the forum ?
I assume that I was bidding against an Ariel owner as that was the only make mentioned in the description.
The Norton is from C5109 and fairly close to mine so I just 'had' to have it. I can't pick out the Ariel numbers yet but the photo is probably later than 1940...1941 or even 1942 I suspect.
Shame about the camera flash on the tanks. But the start number 4 indicates one of the first four contracts demanded in 41 or even the 5th contract in 42. Early bikes Still with rubber mounted handlebars and rubber grips and metal tank badges. I didn't bid Rik.......I just nicked yours. Ron
email (option): ronpier@talk21.com
Ron, that's just the eBay seller's image. If you want Hi-res then you'll have to ask really nicely.
The original has been sent to UK so I won't have it for a while. I've been squinting at the cap badges and wondering. The coloured F.S.caps should help. Could they be RAOC ? The light coloured piping on the edege, on a single colour cap restricts things and it may be that the RAOC red piping around the crown simply isn't visible.
It goes without saying that I'll want to haul as much out of the image as possible.
They can't be proper tax discs as there is no civilian reg number and they are post September 1939 bikes so would never have had them.