Ajay’s AMERICAN Vee

There’s something about V-twins. I have one, a modern Italian jobbie with electronic almost everything, Frank W has a Matchless Model X that I rebuilt for him, and now a chap I last saw in Holland thirty years ago turns up with a dismantled engine and gearbox from one. This came from a 1938 AJS Model 2A which he and his brother took apart, with the best of intentions, some twenty years ago. Their plan was to recondition the whole thing, but it didn’t progress much further and the boxes of bits ended up in the dark corner of a shed.

The photos show similar machines from the era, with almost identical engines to the ‘38 model. As AJS and Matchless models were