Readers’ Letters
Credit for Billy Jones
Hope you're well in these 'interesting' times. What a pity we can't all be out enjoying this lovely spring weather on our bikes, but it's a sacrifice we have to make.
What we are grateful for is guys like you who continue to provide our monthly magazine fix despite the challenges you talk about in your editorial last month, so keep up the good work.
Which leads me on to the reason for bothering you. In your June issue, the photo and story on page 70 of the Stevens brothers and the four-man AJS Junior TT team of 1914 ("Men who mattered - the Stevens brothers") is wonderful, but I'm sure you won't mind me pointing out an inaccuracy in the text. Eric and Cyril Williams (not related) are quite rightly credited with first and second places, but the feature implies Billy Heaton and Bert Haddock ( the other two AJS teamsters) were fourth and sixth. Not so.
Fourth place actually went to Billy Jones from Chester on his semi-works AJS, with Bert Haddock in sixth. The unlucky Billy Heaton ran as high as second after four laps before falling on the climb up the Mountain on the fifth and final lap, remounting to struggle home in 28th place with a buckled front wheel.
The British Motorcycle Charitable Trust have acquired the only surviving AJS
