0-80 MPH Smiths PA Speedometer

[Vincent.vanGinneke]

sorry to hijack this thread..... well, not really !

Charles, this is what I found, but the drive comes from the frontwheel, a later addition.

[Roger Gwynn]

Draganfly asked the Indians to fit both cable tunnels to make universal tanks and they have just carried on like that.

[KenS]

Hi Ken, thats correct for a prewar and early postwar model.
Charles asks for the arrangement on top of the tank (?) or near the handlebar (?)

but Ken, please give us the year of your Ariel.
a Chronometric is fitted to paneltanks after 1946 (or so...) with a Chronometric the cable goes straight -vertically- down through the tank.
I think that the repro Indian tanks have both holes in the tank.
e.g. the hole straight down and a hole to the rear so to be able to fit either a PA or a Chronometric, and take even less fuel

According to my dispatch certificate, my bike, Model VG2, was assembled at the factory on 3rd December, 1945, then exported as a 1946 model with a 0-80 MPH PA speedometer and a petrol tank that has the cable exit under the lower right hand side of the tank.

I received a reply from the Indian manufacturer regarding them producing/manufacturing a Smiths PA speedometer. They requested a photograph which I sent. Hopefully, they can do it

[KenS]

Pictures of my petrol tank and panel with Smiths Chronometric 0-100 MPH replica dummy speedo

[KenS]

I located these replacement replica faces for a PA speedo on eBay. What color face (Black or Silver) for a 46 model bike?
Option 1: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116230962513?_ ... 5M9S6R1V1W
Option 2: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116442607796?_ ... 8F8TRSM9SA

[SEDoan]

The ones I've seen are black faces.


Probably should sell these. Both probably original to Austin 7 cars. If I remember correctly the one with the brass case was originally 60mph so it has a new face and glass. The one with the trip meter wont fit in your tank because the drive sticking out the back.

Also have an 8 day clock, but the winder is at 6 o'clock instead of 12 o'clock.

[KenS]

I received the 80 mph speedo face replica, shipped from Argentina. What vintage would this "model" have come from?

[Karol Burger]

probably comes from this model

https://www.arielklub.sk/inzerat-24287- ... ter-Smiths

[KenS]

probably comes from this model

https://www.arielklub.sk/inzerat-24287- ... ter-Smiths

Thank you.