Speedway Workshop

JAP Speedway Motorcycles

The Speedway Workshop Archive includes the following pages on J.A.P dirt track, grass track and speedway machines.



The JAP Workbench

Year Machine Detail

1928/48/53 OEC Three of the O.E.C. Machines

1928 OK-Supreme JAP with magneto in front of engine

1928 Lady The Belgian twin port machine

1930 Wallis 350cc Wallis TT Twin Port engine

1930 Comerford Housing L.H Horizontal Carb Motor

1931 Dog Ear S/P The Dog-Eared Single Port (Twin Plug)

1932 Short 4 L/H Carb-Short 4-Open Valved

1932 Comerford Comerford with the latest Short-4

1933 Rudge/JAP The Short-4 housed in Rudge Frame

1933 Suecia The Swedish SMT-50 machine

1933 Long Four First with Down Draught on Inlet Port

1937 350 JAP The 350cc 5-Stud engine

** 500 JAP The 5-Stud Long and Short engines

1938
Victor Martin Housing the JAP 5-Stud

1948 Vic Duggan World Champion Vic Duggan Design

1948 W.Phillips Wal Phillips Horizontal JAP

1948 Staride The Erskine "Staride"

1948 Martin Housing the JAP Long 5-Stud motor

1948 Les Wotton Housing the Long JAP 5-Stud motor

1949 Hynes The Dave Hynes JAP

1949 Langton Eric Langton Mk4 Machine

1949 Payne Payne JAP housing converted Short4

1955 Arnott Frank Arnott's Desmodromic JAP

1955 Huck Fynn With the earlier "Trombone" Forks

1965 The Bewley George Bewley's Spring Forks machine

1967 Erskine Restored JAP as ridden by S. Sjosten

1960's Mattingly With "Trombone" forks and 4A motor.

1960's 500 JAP Using C.B Ignition not Magneto

19?? Jackson JAP An early Jackson JAP

1952 Jackson-Rotrax-1 The most famed of JAP's

1972 Rotrax-2 Rotrax with 4 valve engine.

1962 Emstar John Patterson's Emstar machines

1970's ERLA SOHC 2-Valve Conversion

1970's RO Norwegian JAP with Weslake Head

1975 84S The 500cc 4-Stud motor

1970's Street JAP Neil Street's 4-Valve Conversion.

1970's 4 Valve The rare 4-valve DOHC engine.


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