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Introducing South Downs Motorcycles: A New member of the Norton Motorcycles family. Blog 24.11.23.
Allen Norton is a defunct British company that supplied replicas of 350 and 500 cc Norton Manx road racing motorcycles. The company was run by Bernie Allen in Great Bedwyn, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. The company started to build replicas of the famous Norton Manx racers in 1990, based on the final 1961 Manx.
Matchless was not given a contract to make motorcycles for the army during the First World War. Peacetime production resumed in 1919, concentrating at first on V-twins for sidecar use, leaving singles until 1923. In 1926 Henry Collier died, and by 1928 Matchless was a limited company. In 1930 they launched a narrow-angle 400 cc V-twin called ...
Girder front forks, solid rear. Brakes. drum brakes. Weight. 388 lb (176 kg) ( dry) Fuel capacity. 3.5 gallons (16 litres) The Norton 16H is a designation given to British motorcycles made between 1911 through to 1954 with various modifications and refers to a single cylinder Norton 490cc side valve engine with a bore and stroke of 79 x 100 mm.
The Norton Commando is a British Norton-Villiers motorcycle with an OHV pre-unit parallel-twin engine, produced by the Norton Motorcycle company from 1967 until 1977. Initially having a nominal 750 cc displacement, actually 745 cc (45.5 cu in), in 1973 it became an 850 cc, actually 828 cc (50.5 cu in).
Norton, brittiskt motorcykelmärke som tillverkats sedan 1902 . James Landsdowne Norton grundade Norton Manufacturing Company år 1898. Till en början tillverkade man delar till cyklar och den begynnande motorcykelindustrin. Ambitionen var dock att tillverka egna motorcyklar. 1902 tillverkade man den första egna motorcykeln med en fransk ...
History. Vincent Motorcycles, "the makers of the world's fastest motorcycles", began with the purchase of HRD Motors Ltd less the factory premises, by Philip Vincent in May 1928. HRD was founded by the British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) pilot, Howard Raymond Davies, who was shot down and captured by the Germans in 1917.
