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FRAME - REAR PARTS AND YEAR GUIDE
IDENTIFING PARTS
12th September 2010

BY John Ready

AJS & Matchless Restoration Guide CONTENTS
1.1. ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.2. DISCLAIMER ....................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.3. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ............................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1.4. Rear Frame ........................................................................................................................... 4 1.4.1. Rigid Rear Ends .............................................................................................................. 4 1.4.2. Spring Rear Ends .......................................................................................................... 10 2. WHEELS ............................................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 2.1. Front Wheel ............................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. 2.1.1. Front Hubs ...................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 2.2. Rear Wheel ............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. 3. BRAKES ............................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 4. TANKS ................................................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

4.1. Fuel Tanks .............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. 4.2. Oil Tanks ................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. 4.2.1. 1938 ................................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. 5. TOOL BOXES .................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 6. ELECTRICAL ................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 6.1. Brake Lights ........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

5.7. Introduction. This guide is produced to allow the author to collate the information needed to identify parts that I continue to acquire. I hope that this information is of value to other collectors. My interest is assembling bikes which are correct for the year and model. Whilst all the bikes are not necessarily “correct” I am always on the look out for the “correct” part. Like all addicts, I will never “be finished”. All Chapters of this guide are “works in progress” and so will be updated as new information comes to hand and time allows. I invite others to provide additional information and corrections. 5.8. ABBREVIATIONS.

5.9. DISCLAIMER. This Restoration Guide has been prepared solely for the use of John Ready. Use by any other party is completely at the risk of that party. John Ready neither undertakes or accepts any liability in any way whatsoever to other any, in respect of the data herein contained including any errors or omissions however caused.

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COPYRIGHT STATEMENT.

All rights reserved. The copyright of this Restoration Guide is the property of John Ready. Neither the Restoration Guide nor any part of it may be used or reproduced by any method whatsoever or incorporated by reference or in any manner whatsoever in any other document without the prior written consent of John Ready.

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Many images are those of other people from the internet. Unfortunately I cannot acknowledge these parties as I do not know who they are. Most are from the various Spare Parts Manuals produced by A.J. Stevens,