Introduction to AOMCC Dating Services
The AOMCC offers a machine dating service to help owners needing to register Ariel motorcycles with the DVLA or who are trying to determine when a machine was built and what options it left the factory with. The service is open to members and non-members alike, and chargeable fees are shown below.
The AOMCC Machine Registrar provides this service which can take several forms:
• registration of a machine under an age-related registration number;
• registration of a machine under the existing number;
• provision of dating certificates for information;
• provision of dating certificates in support of an overseas registration.
There are several services commonly needed from the DVLA which don’t need to involve the Machine Registrar. For example:
• You don’t need to contact the Machine Registrar if you need to apply for an exemption for tax – sometimes known as putting a bike into ‘historic tax class’. You can apply for one using the DVLA form V112 at a Post Office dealing with vehicle tax.
• If your bike is on the DVLA database, but you don’t have V5, you can apply for one using the DVLA form V62 which you can download or obtain from a Post Office dealing with vehicle tax.
If you are in any doubt about what to do, contact the Machine Registrar and he will advise you.
Dating Your Bike
The club has prepared a 'Numbering Guidance' pdf document to help you find your engine and frame numbers and to help you understand the numbers when you find them. It includes a full list of frame, engine and gearbox prefixes for Ariel machines:
Get in touch with the Machine Registrar if you need further help dating your machine.
Registering Your Bike
The Machine Registrar provides this service which can take two main forms:
• support for the DVLA to issue an age-related registration number where there is no adequate evidence of the original registration or,
• if you have proof such an original logbook, the retention of an existing number.
Below are links to single page PDF documents giving details of the two possibilities:
The registration schemes are run by the DVLA in close co-operation with the Federation of British Historical Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC), to which the AOMCC is affiliated. The DVLA require, through agreement with the FBHVC, that it should be normal practice for the vehicle in question to be inspected by the club before approval is given to DVLA to proceed with the issue of a number. The AOMCC act diligently in this role. Bear in mind that the AOMCC can only support the registration of machines which are of Ariel manufacture. Specials composed of a variety of components from different marques require registration under a different process which we will support if appropriate.
The DVLA reserve the right to carry out further inspections of your motorcycle when you apply for registration. The basic requirement is that the bike must be complete, or almost so; a machine which only needs the wiring done before it is complete will be fine whereas one where the frame is on the bench, but the engine and gearbox are in assorted boxes around the garage will not.
Dating Certificates for Information
We are also able to provide dating certificates to overseas club members (who might need to provide documentation of a machine’s year of manufacture for their own country’s vehicle authorities) and to UK members who might want to verify the details of their machines as shown in the factory records but whose machines are already registered.
Fees
The service is open to anyone including non-members of the Club. We charge a fee as tabled below which can be paid by bank transfer in the UK. PayPal is only available for overseas dating certificates.
| |
Members |
Non-members |
| Age Related Number |
£20.00 |
£40.00 |
| Retention of Registration Number |
£40.00 |
£60.00 |
| Overseas Dating Certificate |
£24.00 |
£48.00 |
| UK Dating Certificate |
£20.00 |
£40.00 |
Contact
If there are any questions, or doubt about which service is right for you, contact the Machine Registrar at
registrar@arielownersmcc.com
If you wish to contact him by post, feel free to do so – his street address is in Cheval.
Applications can be made through e-mail using attached forms & pictures, or by post using printed material for those of you that prefer to work that way. Note that original, irreplaceable buff log books must be sent by recorded delivery.
