Hartley Ariel in Auction

[tony.barnett]

Interesting looking Hartley Ariel for sale not far from me. Not a daft price either.

https://richardedmonds.atgportals.net/a ... 550091131d

[Roger Gwynn]

Interesting in that the register has a record of the engine in this bike being fitted to a 1954 KH PRF frame dated July 1981. Whatever this frame is it isn't a PRF one, the number may be hidden under the paint. Comparing it to photos of the bike that it purports to be in Hartley's book, taken in 1952, clearly the engine has changed as well as the petrol tank, front wheel, rear shocks and the strange front engine plates. The photos in Hartley are not large nor especially clear and of course racing machines to have a tendency to be modified over the years. Hartley writes a lot about the achievements but not so much about the machines, the BSA wheel mentioned cannot be the one currently fitted. According to Hartley the bike was built by Peter Ferbrache and the engine tuned by Laurence Hartley and was sold in 1957 to Jimmy Wilde.

[paul.jameson]

The late Mr R Saunders told me that he had scrapped the prf converted frame which came with Peter Ferbrache's 250.