The Velobanjogent: W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, was a business in the motorcycle trade in Sydney, Australia from the 1920's up into around 1990 when it finally closed it's doors...I've most of the Omodei accessory catalogues and this post illustrates Ariel motorcycle information they kept for staff to sell items for in 1938 and 1939.....

Sunday, December 16, 2012

W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, was a business in the motorcycle trade in Sydney, Australia from the 1920's up into around 1990 when it finally closed it's doors...I've most of the Omodei accessory catalogues and this post illustrates Ariel motorcycle information they kept for staff to sell items for in 1938 and 1939.....

I started with an earlier post on the Sydney business, W.F.Omodei Pty. Ltd with some Amal information..see...

http://velobanjogent.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/276-amal-carburettor-from-early-1930s.html

In the many catalogues from UK and other countries trade houses, for Reg Hardy who was the manager for such a long time and the final owner, was an inveterate writer to these companies seeking products, distribution rights etc, were some hand made data books, which were for the use of himself and his staff to identify parts required from counter and mail order inquiries to assist with sales.

They are fascinating for this use, but now form a very useful reference tool...

This will be the start of a series as I often do, until all the data is displayed....

One of the books featured pages cut out from various motorcycle manufacturers catalogues with reference to the items they could sell to the public...

I first did some Velocette information....

http://velobanjogent.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/wf-omodei-pty-ltd-was-business-in.html

Then some of the Norton information...

http://velobanjogent.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/wf-omodei-pty-ltd-motorcycle-accessory.html

And this posting is for the Ariel items in the counter book....

The information covers tyre sizes, cylinder bore size for piston rings etc....