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Another Ajay long-term story

Your article in the February edition of The Classic MotorCycle, featuring the lovingly restored AJS 31CSR, prompted me to share the story and photographs of my own machine, which is almost identical in every way, including the year of manufacture (1960) to the one featured, and also has a long history.

My Ajay was bought as a year-old machine from a dealer close to the factory in 1961, by a gentleman known as Mick, who lived in Dulwich, and still does, although now in his 90s. Mick had yearned after an AJS such as this for some time and was therefore very pleased to be able to purchase UJB 484, which quickly

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