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The recent spate of interest in AMC hybrids (in RC166) seems to have largely ignored the fact that some were sent out dressed up in AJS livery. In 1970, I gave £120 for a four year-old AJS to take me to college from Dorset to Bedfordshire. The machine was, if I recall correctly, designated

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