Velocette is may be my main interest in motorcycling, especially at my age, but my archive holds lots of other interesting memorabilia...
So I opened a folder "Norton" and the follwing is a little from it.....
Some items could have appeared earlier in another post from me....
Apologies.... no particular order or theme....
Bat Byrnes at Bathurst, NSW on the Mt. Panorama circuit, unsure of the year...likely 1938,39 or 40...
He won the Senior Australian GP there in 1939 on a Norton...
Paul Adams and friend with their Nortons, somewhere in California....
From "The MotorCycle", 12th June 1952...
Dennis Fry pushes off in the Feature race at Oran Park,NSW, 1972...the only Norton still racing in title events in NSW then, likely Australia.
Aghhh..."caught"...The Velobanjogent rides one of Dennis Fry's 350 Manx Norton's at Bathurst during an historic race in the 1980's....friend John Herrick seems bemused at the line I'm spinning him....
Geoff Duke astride the 1912 Norton "Old Miracle" at Beaulieu....
1928 Junior TT...#33 Stanley Woods.....
1 comment:
Hi, Nice photos... appreciated the one of my father Bat, on the Norton at Bathust in '38. I'm guessing 1938, I think that was the first year at Mt Panaorama, before it was sealed. In all he won 3 times, before and after WW2... I'd have to check in Jim Scaysbrook's book to be sure of the years...
Cheers,
Graham Byrnes
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