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John Earnshaw, the third generation of veteran and early vintage motorcycle enthusiasts from Yorkshire, (‘real motorcycles’ as his father the late David Earnshaw described them), telephoned to note the machine Eric Remington entered in immediate post First World War Brooklands events as a 986cc NUT-JAP, pictured and captioned as such in Back on Track part 2, TCM April 2018, page 70 looks more Matchless than NUT. And having taken a closer look I agree totally with John’s comments.
Riders such as Remington, Baragwaneth, Don, Le Vack in his early days, Garrett etc built their Brooklands racing machines from what they had or could scrounge, buy, persuade factories to donate or even borrow, and the rolling chassis of his ‘NUT-JAP’ looks exactly like that of a late veteran Matchless.
Interestingly, Eric Remington competed pre First World War on a 986cc Matchless-JAP until the end of the 1913 season, but in 1914 his entries detail his mount as a 986cc NUT-JAP.
Comparing pictures of Remington’s Matchless photographed in 1913 – published in many books including Peter Hartley’s ‘Bikes at Brooklands in the Pioneer Years’ – and the one taken in 1920 and published in my feature, one discovers the only difference between the
