Taking Your Ariel to its Birth Place

[IanG]

Just getting a idea on if anyone is interested.

We have a chance of going to the Birth place of the Atom & Nomad.

A factory tour of Arch Motors in Huntingdon.
For those that don't know Arch make the Frames and a few other bits for Ariel.

Arch Motor and Manufacturing Co Ltd (known throughout the world as “Arch Motors”) was founded in 1958 by sidecar racers Bob Robinson, Ted and Alan Young. For the first eight years the company traded under a railway “Arch” in Tottenham, North London before moving to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in 1966.

Early customers, Lola, came to Arch Motors for their Lola Mk1 sports racing chassis, with Lola and Arch Motors pioneering the method of gas bronze welding space frames.

Lotus were also amongst the first customers with Lotus Development engineer and college friend Don Gadd introducing Colin Chapman to the fledgling company. Small components, such as pedals and wishbones were produced, leading on to Formula Junior chassis like the Lotus 22, the sports racer Lotus 23B and Lotus 24 F1 chassis was well as wishbones and rollover bars for the Lotus 25. Later chassis for Lotus include Lotus 31, 41, 51, 59 and 61. Formula Ford 69, 69 F3, 69 F2 and parts for Lotus 49 and 72 F1 cars.

https://archmotor.co.uk/history

Other highlights include:

Chassis for McLaren, Brabham, March, Ralt, Royale, Van Diemen and many others. Many components for the Ford GT40 and Ford advanced vehicles The Ford RS200 chassis was another very notable addition to an illustrious list




The plan will be a morning tour on a Saturday then find some road's for a blast around.

The date will be confirmed soon

[Ben_payne]

Up for this. My daughter is named Lola, after the GT40.

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[Sir Nick]

Wow that's a brilliant history I never knew!

What an epic event Ian. Thanks for organising!

[Mrlizard]

sounds really interesting this, never realised the history behind Arch Motors was that incredible!

[stupot]

Great idea Ian and I am up for this.

[IanG]

Date set
20-05-2023
We have space for 15 people if there is anymore interest we can organise another time as well as Arch are very open to this

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[robfitz]

Up for that, thanks Ian

[IanG]

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[stupot]

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[GraemeW]

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GraemeW (may not have the new atom yet)

[Szabo]

I’d love to attend

[IanG]

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[Olnorth]

Up for this. My daughter is named Lola, after the GT40.

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Haha I did the same. I wasn't allowed to make her middle name T70 though....

[Olnorth]

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Sir Nick
robfitz
stupot
GraemeW (may not have the new atom yet)
Szabo
Olnorth (maybe)

Could be up for it depending on dates

[John Scherrer]

See above - Date Set - 20th May 23