AMC ANORAK

Matchless – and AJS, for they were pretty much identical – sprang into the brave new world of the parallel twin with a machine which was bang up to date for its time. And they dodged the money-saving tactic of converting their existing pre-war frames from rigid – no rear springing – into often clumsy plunger types, which were usually simply a lash-up pretending modernity. Matchless’s first