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The Norton Manx or Manx Norton is a British racing motorcycle that was made from 1947 to 1962 by Norton Motors Ltd.Norton had contested every Isle of Man TT race from the inaugural 1907 event through into the 1970s, a feat unrivalled by any other manufacturer, and the development and honing of the Manx racing motorcycle was another step in this racing achievement.
Manx Model 30: 498cc ohc 1946–1963 Manx Model 40: 348cc ohc 1946–1963 Model 7: 497cc twin 1949–1956 First Norton Twin Motorcycle, designed by Bert Hopwood Model 77: 497cc 1950–1952 A rigid framed version of the Model 7, supplied only to the Australian market. Model 77: 596cc 1957–1958 Built mainly for sidecar use Dominator 88: 497cc ...
The Norton Manxman was a 650 cc vertical twin motorcycle manufactured by the British Norton Motorcycle Company at their Bracebridge St, Birmingham factory for export. The engine was an enlargement of the 600 cc engine used in the Model 99 Dominator .
The Norton Motorcycle Company (formerly Norton Motorcycles.) is a brand of motorcycles headquartered in Solihull, West Midlands, (originally based in Birmingham), England. For some years around 1990, the rights to use the name on motorcycles were owned by North American financiers. Currently it is owned by Indian motorcycle giant TVS Motor Company.
The Norton 650SS is a 650 cc (40 cu in) vertical twin motorcycle made by Norton Motorcycle Company from 1962 to 1967. The 650SS was based on the Norton Manxman. The machine was capable of 110–115 mph (177–185 km/h). [1] [2] SS stood for Sports Special.
In 2013, a 1966 Norton Manx 350cc, prepared by Beart and raced by Joe Dunphy and Keith Heckles, was sold at Bonhams in the UK for £61,980, setting a new world record for a Manx sold at auction. [8] In 2015, a 1961 Norton Manx 350cc, prepared by Beart for Jimmy Guthrie, was sold by Bonhams in Las Vegas for $75,900. [9]
They were not known as 'Norton Dunstall' - this is a later corruption as all 1960s literature quote Dunstall Norton Dominator, Dunstall Dominator or Dunstall 750 Atlas. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The last bikes from the featherbed-based machines in the 1969 catalogue were stated as Dunstall Norton Sprint and Export 750 together with the newest bike in the ...
The name International was first used by Norton both for its newly designed race bikes and also for the TT replica sports roadster in 1932. Overseen by Joe Craig, Arthur Carroll had designed an overhead-camshaft engine for the works racers and although it retained the 79 mm × 100 mm (3.1 in × 3.9 in) bore and stroke of the Norton CS1 the Model 30 International was all new.