Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Dad's Norton

 


-JdK- David in the UK sent us this photograph and provided the text that follows: "I have a photograph of my father taken in 1938/39; he would be about 19 years old. He is sitting astride a Norton Inter. I think it is a lovely period image, it is black & white, he is dressed in collar and tie, tweed jacket and baggy trousers, and he looks as pleased as could be.

The story goes that he collected the bike from the “Low Level” railway goods station in Wolverhampton and rode it to his parents home in the suburbs of Wolverhampton. He was and remained until his death a fanatic for things motoring."

Richard had a look and comments: "It's always good to see photos from the time these bikes were used daily. The bike is either 1932 or 1933 but the interesting thing is it has a racing end-feed cambox. These were only fitted to the competition engines in the early 1930s so the cambox was probably fitted at a later date. I also see the front tyre is a trials pattern, so possibly used for grass track or sand racing before David's father bought it. The registration number is for Edinburgh, Scotland so it seems the bike had moved around. Note that it has a few non-standard bits and seems to have a dynamo run from the crank like the Moore OHC engines."