Mr Green 7R

I refer to Jonathan Hill’s (March 2022 issue) review of British 250cc Racing Motorcycles, a book which I will be purchasing shortly.

The modified Nortons, Velocettes and BSA Gold Stars are mentioned and Jonathan implies, correctly, I’m sure, that the 7R AJS was rarely subjected to such capacity reduction. On reading this, a distant memory niggled, so I dug deep into the brain cells and recalled a photograph in one of the mags, probably The Motor Cycle, in (I think) early 1958.

My recollection is of a caption beneath the picture of ‘Peter Green’s cut-down 7R.’ Now I don’t remember anything else about Peter Green and I have no recollection of seeing the machine at the late-1950s Silverstone meetings which I attended.

Why would I remember such an obscure media item? Too young to have a licence, my pal and I cycled to Silverstone from our St Albans homes and stayed for two nights, either side of the April 58 ‘Silverstone Saturday’ event, at the Youth Hostel in the hamlet of Green’s Norton, which amused us at the time. I wonder what became of the modified

7R, or indeed, of the enterprising Mr Green.

With all good wishes for infinite continuity of your excellent journal. Charles Cleghorn, via email.