But is this realy the 'Model A' ?
The gearbox is not the Sturmey Archer, but a Burman Q.
brgs

Why not write / e-mail / fax / pigeon to the Royal family. There must be more pics of him on his Ariel in the Royal scrapbooks .... Anyone of us have access to these folk ? Vincent I have already tried an email to the Royal Palass i Norway, but the respons is that no information is available. brgs ...

Magne, That would be an excellent addition for the book. Do you have a scan in high resolution which you could send me? For printing the resolution needs to be much higher than for the screen to be usable. A jpeg of the right quality is usually going to be somewhere in the 1mb - 5 mb size range and...

Hi Dave
You may of cause use the picture of Krownprince Olav of Norway, riding his 1929 Model F as discused in this discussion: http://forum.arielownersmcc.com/viewt ... f=21&t=890

brgs Magne

Mine 1944 W/NG is all black. And also mine "new" frame from surplus store is black.

Marvelous piece of art!

I also found better quality copy of the same postcard, posted by the "National Library of Norway" on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_norway/6812836668/ And the bike does have a Centre Stand. The archives of the publisher "Mittet & Co." from the period from 1...

This picture shows Crown Prince Olav of Norway on an Ariel, but which model and year ? Numberplate indicates registration probabely in 1930 or 1931, but this number is no longer active. Could it be a 1929 or 1930 Model E or F? Any sugestions ? http://lh3.ggpht.com/-M9iW7VT7OOw/Sh2dwTGYCUI/AAAAAAAAbB...

Wow, that's quite some pricing. Maybe I have to dig out my boxes of canvas twist grips, and post them on ebay

A very beautiful bike.

Agree:

admin wrote:A bike should only be:
1. black
2. flat matt military green