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1928 Model CS1 Norton
-SG- The Banbury Run organised by the VMCC took place on Sunday and I spent too long loitering in the autojumble area and chatting with friends and not enough time looking at the entrants' machines -...
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Use 'em! c1939 Model ES2 Norton
-By Olav- Here’s a couple of pictures of my ES2. Frame and engine are 1939 ES2 while forks, gearbox and rear mudguard are WD16H items. I bought it last summer as a project (above), missing quite a few...
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Gordon Small and Johnny Duncan
'Right-click' and choose 'open link in new window'for a large and readable version-SG- Gordon Cadzow was the pen-name of Gordon Small - a top executive at the Scottish publishing firm of D C Thomson...
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1000 posts!
With the story on Johnny Duncan below we have reached 1000 posts on this website! Many thanks to all who have contributed photos and stories making this website (and we're not going to be shy about...
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1938 Model 50 Norton
-From the Red Devil Motors website- The Norton in the photo above was identified by Karl as a Model 50 from 1938. Apparently the 350cc Model 50 can be identified by the number of fins on the barrel and...
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1938 Model CS1 Norton
-JdK- This pic was contributed by Mike in California, who got it from an NOC forum discussion. Apparently the Home Guard, somewhere in the late 1930s-early 1940s, who were using civilian machines. The...
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1921 Model 16H and Big Four Nortons
The 1921 Big Four (left) and 16H (right)Dodi in Italy sent these pics of his 1921 Model Big Four and 16H Nortons. Dodi: "The Big Four has engine number BA17XX and frame number 35XX. I bought it 15...
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1910 Model 3 1/2 Norton
-SG- There aren't that many early Nortons about (and one or two are perhaps not what they are cracked up to be!) but at the VMCC's Banbury Run this year was the 1910 single speeder that its owner...
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c1937 Model 18 Norton
Eric in the UK sent these photo's. "Above is our Dad (we think) and if the date is right (1938) he would have been about 20 years old. Below is one of him and my Mum. Dad and Mum (Eric and Hannah...
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VMCC Founder's Day
1930 Model 22 Norton-SG- The VMCC's Founder's Day event took place last weekend. Not a lot to report on the pre-war Norton front although I spotted a restored 1930 Model 22 - which had, I think, been...
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Racing Norton Sturmey gearbox ??
-SG- Last Autumn we received photos from Australia of what at first sight seemed to be one of the early twenties racing CS four stud gearboxes without the usual casting extension holding the kick-start...
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Preparation for racing - Models 30 and 40 International, 30M and 40M
-JdK- Jon and Ian in the UK and Isle of Man apparently both took these original Norton 'tuning notes' for the Models 30 and 40 International, 30M and 40M and copied them 'for the older eyes'; very...
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E O Blacknell's Dirt bike
-SG- In the recent posting about the VMCC Founder's Day event, I mentioned that I had been offered a snap of E O Blacknell on a Dirt Norton prototype (ca 1929) for a little matter of £45 ... I had seen...
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1930 Model DT Norton
-SG- Leon is Australia has forwarded this photo of Herb Durkin - about whom there's a fair amount on the Internet, worthy of a quick read - seated on a 1930 DT Norton. The photo is via the Herb Durkin...
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1935 Modell 40 Norton
-SG- Don has sent in photos of his very tidy 1935 Model 40 - which, slightly unusual in this day and age, has all numbers matching with the records. Yes, engine, frame, tank, gearbox and magdyno! It...
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New Zealand Grass Track 1925
-SG- My good friend John has sent the photos attached, taken from 'The Weekly Press and NZ Referee' from 12th March 1925. All the bikes are in usual New Zealand grass-track trim with brakes either...
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Now we know the real story!
-SG- Those followers of this site and eBay will perhaps have been amused by the rather weird - only word for it - description which accompanies the photographs of this quite tidy 1923 16H (has a later...
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Model 25 Norton valves and guides
-Juris- You might be interested to hear how I reconditioned valves and guides in my 1926 Model 25 Norton.Bare nickel steel valves get scored in chilled cast iron guides very soon, especially the...
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1928 Model CS1 Norton
-SG- Alan returned recently from a trip to the Isle of Man - during which he visted the Isle of Man Motor Museum at Jurby and took various photos of a CS1 Norton on display.A lot of effort has been put...
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Enclosed SOHC rockerbox
-JdK- We have had photo's of a replica enclosed rockerbox for the SOHC Carroll engine on the site before. Now Chris has contributed pics of an original, owned by his father Ken, who wrote the words...
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