Agent for British bicycles and motorcycles in the 1930s.
A.J. Jones, of the Castle Cycle & Motor Works, acted as a sales agent for both bicycles, and motorcycles, of British manufacture in the pre-war era. This particular headed letter - a receipt for payments made on a loan - dates to 1934, and the text at the very top tells us that they'd already been in business for over fifty years by that time.
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Listed to the left are the makes of motorcycle that they were agents for :- Sunbeam, Royal Enfield, AJS, BSA, Ariel, Raleigh and Norton. To the right, the makes of bicycle that they could supply :- Sunbeam, Raleigh, BSA, Humber, Premier, Swift and Royal Enfield. It also mentions that they produced their own bicycle - the Castle - appropriate, given the name of the Works they operated at. If supplying fine British cycles and motorcycles wasn't enough, A.J. Jones also did a line in high-class perambulators no less.
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The motorcycle shown at the top left of the receipt is a BSA, perhaps someone can identify the model?
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The cycle works' address was 70 High Street, Barnstaple, in Devon. The premises, or at least a building in this same position, still exists, now part of a Boots Chemist, but obviously 70+ years ago it was a much more interesting establishment, packed as it was with interesting pre-war motorcycles and bicycles.
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More items of motoring paperwork relating to pre-war vehicles and garages can be found in the Motoring Collectibles section of oldclassiccar.co.uk.
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