Internationale Sechstagefahrt 1955

[Vincent.vanGinneke]

All pictures by Erwin Jelinek in the collection of the Technisches Museum Wien.

https://www.technischesmuseum.at/motors ... cleid/2489

[Simon.Gardiner]

What a fascinating selection of Ariels!
Interesting to see a couple of 650s in action, one of which still seems to be around (Dec. '53 Ariel 650cc on SORN - please come in no. 169!)

SG

[adrie.degraaff]

Now that's what i call trialling , still keen on doing it my self, the mount at Lújar is my favorite.

[will_curry]

169 was Frank Wilkins and Kay with the huntmaster.

Last time I saw the huntmaster was at Simon Walton's funeral many years ago now.
Nick George had the huntmaster then and I followed it from the crematorium to to
the reception. It sounded wonderful. Nick did say that the sidecar had more-or-less
rotted completely. This surprised me a bit as Frank was a carpenter by trade.

[roger.fellows]

Do you think SOE 212 was meant to be provocative? - Or had nobody heard of it then?

[Vincent.vanGinneke]

Thanks Will, That is nice to know. I met them once, in the restaurant of the NMM at the Centennial Rally in 1998.
A real gentleman and full of advice about anything Ariel, I still have some notes about preparing Ariels from him that he posted me later.

And about one of the other Ariels ;
On the Stilltime archive I found a picture of Bob Ray's ISDT KH SOE 212