1914 Veloce..... a view of a catalogue in my archive

Really early examples of early Velocette motorcycles, including their earlier name Veloce are rare.
Veloce Limited were of course the manufacturers...
Recently Pete Young who publishes his Occhio lungo web blog restored a very poor example of a 1913 Veloce...heaps of work but the bike is restored and I'd guess the jewel in the crown of Pete's motorcycle collection.
Looks real good to me....

 He featured items on it on his blog....his thank you file.....the first time it started...His first ride on the bike... 
I've got an original 1914 Veloce catalogue....
It features examples of the Veloce and the smaller two stroke that they called the Velocette...
So let's have a look through it....

Pete Young with one of his youngsters at the 2006 North American Velo OC Rally and Ride...looks like the Saturday afternoon following the week long ride at the annual judging...Pete has his "riders choice" judging form and a pencil at the ready....

W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I featured items previously from their counter data books , lets follow the BSA items in those books.....

As mentioned in previous posts, I've most of the trade catalogs and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, including the fascinating made up data books for the counter staff to ascertain products in stock for the major motorcycle brands from the 1930's...

Last time we featured Velocette then Norton and some accessory stuff...

This time it is BSA.

I notice that Reg Hardy who was the manager of Omodeis for such a long time up until its closure had cut up BSA catalogues for 1938 to add to his data book....

 Interesting to note the hand written comments by Reg Hardy on these pages....