Seen dangling in ropes is a swingarm Ariel with what looks like a VHA engine.
Upon second look this Ariel has the new for 1953 earles swingarm front fork.
The only part that could be from that time is possibly the BA gearbox.
So... is this Ariel one of the pre production and never marketed 1953 earles forked Ariels ?
I'd like to know more about it ! is Mike on this forum?
Only other time I have seen a Ariel with this earles front fork was at the annual of 1998.
That one was restored in bright Red-Orange
and turned up around lunch time that weekend.But maybe I am mistaken as the text below says that this orange Ariel surfaced in 2004, bit of a mistery.
Or perhaps there are two
of those orange ones ! -heaven forbid- In April that same year Ariel announced a trio of new models fitted with a leading-link front fork developed in collaboration with E R G ‘Ernie’ Earles. The Earles-type fork was to be made available on the Square Four ‘Royal Hunter’, the KHA MkII ‘Hunt Master’ twin and the VHA ‘Hunt Marshal’ single. This new development was reported at length in The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling, which also carried advertisements depicting the three prototypes. Interested parties were asked to contact their local dealer for information or send for a brochure. Like so many apparently promising ideas, Ariel’s Earles-fork models did not reach production and of the handful of prototypes made, the KHA Hunt Master offered here is the only known survivor.
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just one request...: dont paint this one Orange !
