Description
For sale
An important motorcycle from the late Roy Wheaton’s AJW collection.
AJW was founded by Jack Wheaton in the 1920s. This Exeter based firm made Rudge and JAP powered machines pre-WWII. After the war, the AJW name was bought by an ex-RAF pilot, Jack Ball, who made a series of lightweight machines based latterly on imported Italian Minarelli engines.
Roy Wheaton – a distant relative of AJW’s founder – became the acknowledged expert on AJW and restored many examples. His work is celebrated in a web site: - details above and a display of his pre-WWII machines is featured at the Lakeland Motor Museum in Windermere:
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The Wheaton family have decided to sell three machines from the collection and would prefer to market them as one lot.
1952 Fox Cub prototype
Jack Ball produced this machine to cost out series production. The machine is powered by a 125cc JAP two-stroke engine and with cantilever rear suspension. Post-war material shortages meant that this machine remained the sole example.
Confirmed provenance to Jack Ball and in concours condition. – For sale at £2, 500
The motorcycle can be viewed near Milton Keynes, Bucks, but contact Dennis Frost in the first instance: using the button below Tel: the details below.
