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The giant killers

This wonderful evocative picture is of the AJS team at the 1921 Isle of Man TT races, the scene of the marque’s greatest ever racing triumph – Howard R Davies’ win in the Senior, 500cc race, on his 350cc Junior machine.

In the presented image, that’s Davies on the right, posed with AJS registration number DA 5737; he appears elsewhere in period reports with the machine, so registered. It would seem to

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