Time for another look through some Veloce Ltd. publicity photographs......

As I've said in the several previous posts (1), (2)  I've done on Velocette publicity photographs, I often acquire more, many from different sources....
Veloce Ltd of course manufactured the Velocette motorcycle....
So I'm not always sure of their origin, but there is a good chance they came from "The MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling" , the copyright of which is now held by Morton's Motorcycle Media in the UK and to who I acknowledge credit if applicable.
Dai Gibberson came over for the 2012 National Velocette Rally at Bundanoon, NSW in October and we shared files.
Some of these are from his sources....thanks Dai.
So lets have a look at some more... 

 

1949 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...348cc Mk.8 KTT.

1949 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...149cc LE (later called mk.1).

1952 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...the newly introduced for 1953, the RS swinging arm frame with the "alloy" 349cc MAC engine. Note the barrel silencer, a departure from the usual Velocette fishtail exhaust....but only for a year, as for 1954 they were back to a fishtail exhaust.

1954 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...the now 200cc LE, called the Mk.2.

1955 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...a sectioned 499cc MSS in Dove Grey colour....

1958 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...499cc Venom with fibreglass engine covers...interesting colour scheme.

1958 November Earles Court Motorcycle show...Veloce Stand...349cc Viper Clubman.

All alloy frame and leading link front forks made by Ernie Earles for Bertie Goodman at Veloce...1951 IOM TT.

Velocette  KTT in the alloy frame, IOM Junior TT, 1951, Frank Fry, retired & entry changed from a Norton...

A sad photo...Les Graham at the start of the ill fated 1953 Senior IOM TT.... he was using a prototype of the Ernie Earles front fork on his works MV Augusta and a violent wobble brought him off and he was killed...