He was able to recruit an experienced British motorcycle designer George William Patchett and together they developed a range of competition motorcycles to promote the new Jawa brand.
"Littlejohn" came from the literal anglicization of the name of František Janeček, the Czech designer and factory owner who had been working on the squeeze-bore principle in the 1930s and his son František Karel Janeček had brought his know-how to Britain after he fled from the Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
František Kupka | František Jílek | František Hrubín | František Palacký | František Moravec | František Kaberle | Frantisek Fadrhonc | František Brikcius | František Bílek | František Neumann | František Laurinec | František Ladislav Rieger | František Kotlaba | František Kašický | František Kardaus | František Kaberle, Sr. | František Janeček | František Fajtl |