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This bike was owned by my father from new for its first five years.
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The attached DVLA search shows it to still be running.
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I guess the log book issue February 2019 was a change of owner.
If this reaches the current owner, or previous owners, I would be delighted to share photographs and information.
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As no one has reacted, there is something strange, it's a 1952 Ariel on the photo and 1954 first on paper.
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By coincidence, my VH is a '52.
But though delivered to a dealer in July '52 it was not registered until November '53. So it must have been sitting in the dealer's for 15 months or so.
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Yes it is strange. It says on the back of the photo 1950 model bought in 1952 brand new from Brandishes. I wrote this probably in the 1970’s after talking to my Dad. So 1954 seems way out.
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It cann't be a 1950 or 1953 model, maybe late 1951, we need to see the rest of the Ariel to know.
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The profile of the barrel fins is '52-'53.
I'd suggest your dad might have been a couple of years out in his dates and it's a '52 model bought new in '54 (I've recently been reviewing the contents of a trunk full of family memorabilia and it's quite disturbing to see the errors in the dates that have been written down by people trying to make notes a decade or so after the fact!)
Registration folks weren't especially interested in manufacturing dates and the year of 1954 is probably just a lazy copy-down on the assumption that all bikes are sold within a week or two of leaving the factory.

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You could try Draganfly's service of providing a copy of the Ariel factory's despatch records.
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OVC registation numbers are listed as Feb->Dec '54 (Coventry)

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