LOT 319

The Clive Wood MBE Collection c.1927 AJS 349cc Big Port Registration no. XR 5647 Frame no. H110543 (only partially readable) Engine no. 40769 (see text)

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Lot 319

The Clive Wood MBE Collection, c.1927 AJS 349cc Big Port

The Spring Stafford Sale - The International Classic MotorCycle Show|21 April 2024, 11:00 BST|Stafford, Staffordshire County Showground

The Clive Wood MBE Collection
c.1927 AJS 349cc Big Port
Registration no. XR 5647
Frame no. H110543 (only partially readable)
Engine no. 40769 (see text)

After victory in the 1920 Junior TT, AJS's new overhead-valve 350 racer scored a memorable double the following year, Tom Sheard winning the Junior race and Howard Davies the Senior - the first time such a feat had been achieved on a '350'. The production version made its debut in November 1922, delighting clubmen everywhere with its 'racer on the road' performance. A right-first-time design destined to achieve countless successes in the hands of privateers, the overhead-valve '350' AJS - latterly known as the 'Big Port' - changed only in detail before being superseded by a much-revised M6 model for 1929.

Acquired by the late owner in June 1986, this AJS Big Port is offered for recommissioning, or possibly more extensive renovation, and thus is sold strictly as viewed (the engine turns over). The accompanying old-style continuation logbook (issued 1944) records the date of first registration as March 1924 and a change of frame in August 1951 from '40580' to the present 'H 110543', the latter dating from 1927. Subsequent to the 1951 frame change, the machine received an engine change to another 1924 unit, '40769'. Offered with an old-style V5 Registration Document.

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