A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.
I wonder whether the two men at the wing-tip are Ernie’s ‘colleagues’ who swing the aircraft round to face in the take-off direction, and then give the propellor a swing (not, I should think, as effective as a good leg-swing on a motor-cycle kick-start) to start the (allegedly) motor-cycle engine. This looks as if it might have been taken after a flight - to record it for ‘posterity’.