This fascinating machine, which now resides in the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, is possessed of what is, perhaps, the most visually beautiful – or, if not beautiful, dramatic perhaps – engine of any motorcycle ever made.
It’s pictured here in probably 1936, with Charles Mortimer in the saddle, who had bought it from the Colliers, then owners of AJS. The story of the machine begins in 1929 when AJS – still in the ownership and control of the
