Norton ‘Silver Fish’ Kneeler at Sammy Miller’s Museum
A rare opportunity to see and hear an exotic racing Norton being ridden by a modern TT racer is coming to Sammy Miller’s Museum in Hampshire.
James Hillier is an Isle of Man TT winner, former TT lap record holder and nine times podium finisher of the North West 200. On April 2, he will be pushing the limits of the museum’s very own 1953 Norton Kneeler.
This year, the Norton Kneeler marks its 70th anniversary since it broke a host of world speed records at Montlhéry, France. The Kneeler broke with Norton’s principle of racing the same bikes anyone could buy in an attempt to enable the single-cylinder Manx engine take on the multi-cylinder machines emerging from Europe. It used the Manx 350 single in a highly modified Featherbed frame on which only the lower tubes and the steering head were retained. The two upper tubes were lowered and, passing either side of the cylinder head,
