Concrete AJS motorcycle sculpture by Penn Road, Wolverhampton
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Concrete AJS motorcycle sculpture by Penn Road, Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 15 Sep 2021
This is now partly hidden in bushes by a footpath linking Penn Road with the Tesco (formerly Waitrose, formerly Morrison's, originally Safeway) supermarket. It was installed in the early 1980s when Safeway opened the new store. A. J. Stevens & Company (1914) Limited was one of the most important motorcycle manufacturers in the Midlands. The company was formed in 1914 and built a new works on the site now occupied by the supermarket. The works eventually covered about 230,000 sq ft and the company produced up to 25,000 machines a year in its heyday. Its motorcycles were very successful in competitions and the Isle of Man T.T., and gained a reputation for quality. The company sadly closed in 1931. (Information from here: http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/plaques/PennRoad.htm )
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