BOB HOLLIDAY
Norton Story in brief
Preface an Acknowledgements
1. Rise...and fall
2. Rescue and revival
3. Back to business
4. Bracebridge Street
5. The ohv Norton
6. A Year of Firsts
7. THe mid-Twenties
8. The Maudes Trophy
9. The camshaft engine
10 350 cc Juniors
11 Racing into the 1930s
12. Hat-tricks and doubles
13. Two Jims, Tim and Stanley
14. The Guthrie-Woods duels
15. The Double Knocker
16. Development through a decade
17. War and peace
18. The September Series
19. Post-war problems and projects
20. On the beach
21. On four wheels
22. On the rough
23. On the track
24. The Featherbed Years (Part 1)
25. The Featherbed Years (Part 2)
26. Goodbye to Bracebridge Street
27. Moden times
Appendix Norton successes in the Isle of Man
Index
The story of Norton-One of the most famous names in motorcycling - is related here in a clear and aurhoeitative style by Bob Holliday, former editor os Motor Cycling. Profuselly illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book is compulsive reading for any motorcycling fan. It begins with the formation of the Norton Manufacturin Company in 1898, and then takes the reader through the move to Bracebridge Street, the racing successes between the wars, the Norton tiumphs at Daytona in the Unites Stares, and the introduction of the "Featherbed" frame, right up to the merger with Villiers Engineering, the production os the famous. Commando and the birth of the John Player-Norton racing team.
