1935 Ariel Red Hunter RH500

[Originally posted at On The Nightstand on Monday, October 10, 2016 and titled Motorcycle Monday 10/10/16]

Built pre-August 1935.    Photo taken November 18, 1935.
Nestled in the beautiful countryside of Kent, the small village of Yalding is prone to regular flooding as it sits between three rivers – the Beult, the Teise, and the Medway.  On November 18, 1935 this nearly new Ariel RH500 was photographed filling up at the Shell pump during the flood.

A surviving example.

Later that same day a different photographer captured a shot of a car filling up at the non-Shell pump.

The store (minus petrol pumps) as it appeared in 2016.