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    Apr 22, 2020 3 minutes

    Norton Villiers Triumph

    Viable proposition, or a house of cards?

    By Brad Jones

    Published by Spangle

    147 pages hardcover full colour

    Price: Au $53.62 + Aus $13.50 P+P.

    Contact: juxta71@outlook.fr

    Can be purchased through eBay.uk

    Following on from his very interesting book, BSA Motorcycles. The final evolution (reviewed in ), Brad Jones has delved into the sorry affair that was Norton Villiers Triumph, which represented the dying gasps of the once mighty UK industry. When BSA went under, a government-backed initiative saw the formation of NVT

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