AV (cyclecar)

The AV was a British cyclecar manufactured by Ward and Avey in Somerset Road, Teddington Middlesex between 1919 and 1924.

The first model was a single-seater, the Monocar, only 30 inches (760 mm) wide with bodies built by the Thames Valley Pattern Works[1] out of wood, plywood or even compressed paper.

[1] Gearboxes were either a two-speed epicyclic unit with foot-operated change or three-speed Sturmey-Archer[1] with chain drive to the rear axle.

Steering was by a wire and bobbin system with the entire front axle being pivoted on early cars.

The Monocar was described by Ixion of The Motor Cycle as "a low, coffin-shape projectile, moderately attractive in dense fog.