Fantastic rare Norton pictures
While it was great to see Barry Stickland’s cammy Nortons in the March 2023 issue, my favourite picture in the whole issue is the line drawing (or early air-brushed?) picture of the 1936 works Norton, on page 79. It’s a picture I have never seen before – fantastic.
It’s very rare to see such a line drawing of a works bike – and one that is correct.
Pictures like that are almost always the catalogue line drawings of the production models; see picture (right) of a prewar ‘Manx’ from a 1938 brochure. It has the same type ‘Big plunger’ frame, but different from the works bike.
Those 1935/36 bikes signified some of the major
