Rotary Owners' Club

About twenty years ago I sold the "Cooke Neilsen" to a German collector who, at the time, was the only person who understood what it was. The NMM, to which I had offered it together with the 1973 Oil in Frame prototype, had declined it. Well. not exactly declined but they offered for the t...

The bike without engine i saw at Podevin's shop when we were invited to look and bid before his children got wise and sold everything through an internet auction house. That got incredible sums for bikes not worth a fraction of these in the open market with the internet buyers assuming- often wrongl...

Problem noted. We are currently working towards linking our stock system up with the webshop. Not so much a software problem, but we are in a part of Andover with a VERY (unbelievably so!) slow internet connection so need to do something about that first. Phil has instigated the necessary installati...

David,If a customer is really desperate to get a part that we have the raw material for I am certain a mutually beneficial solution can be found.Our drawings are the basis of our business. We cannot pass them on to everybody. It was often surprising at best, annoying and hurtful at worst, where draw...

Joe,Sorry, we do not give out copies of our drawings. I know that Andover Norton once had employees who quite happily copied and sent our technical drawings out to all and sundry.The only way was for us to get those castings machined by trusted suppliers who have signed our confidentiality agreement...

Paul,A bit difficult at present as we have only just gotten everything in Andover after Pete's retirement. Most of the unfinished stock is still in stores #2 waiting for us to make a rough order and then I hope for Richard to identify and list what is there, and what of the secondhand goods is useab...

Gentlemen,Just a quick note to say our new website is now online. I have started to integrate the Norton Rotaries at last- now that I have a software that can link pictures up. Classic and Commander are currently covered, and Richard's reaction, who kindly looked it over pre-publication, was: "...

I know where new F1/P55 excentric shafts are.... if that was the problem.

Andover Norton's first Open Day in on 31st October, from 9.30am.Richard Negus and Bob Rowley plan to come, so if there is that point you always wanted cleared up this is your opportunity to have it done!Other figures from Norton's past who will attend are Keith Blair, Nick Hopkins, Mike Jackson, Pet...

What's the world coming to when the UK's premier one-make club shows a fake? Well, that "UK's premier one-make club" also shows the well-documented fake Rem Fowler 1907 TT-winner again and again and calls it the real deal. But then so do the NMM and the world's greatest Norton flat tanker...

Richard cleared everything up anyway, but a look at A ndover N orton I nternational L td's (internal name "ANIL") should clear all the bits up that one needs for the various exhaust systems we do for Commandos: http://www.andover-norton.co.uk/SI%20Exhaust%20sytems.htmThe "SS" exh...

You mention rotary parts in a out building, I strongly recommend acf50 on metal parts. Wayne, the outbuilding is history. Since we moved back into Andover last winter everything is in a nice, dry warehouse, together with the Commando parts. Then again, we did run a dehumidifier in the outbuilding i...

identical, sorry, mistype.

You should ask Brian C. the same question. I suspect the answer will be indentical.

Part of my deal with Kenny Dreer/Norton America was I had to supply an F1 for them. I got one, delivered it to Munich airport, and had put down in the contract it was their problem to ship it. I saw it being put on a pallet. How they got it into the States I do not know, but I know Kenny Dreer and o...

the engine dose and did exist and has been dyno tested, but nothing to do with norton donnington That is exactly what I meant- the bits of machined aluminium photographed in MCN were nothing but that. And, contrary to the cheap propaganda in MCN, not to mention certain websites, nothing anywhere ne...

It's a pity because it had dyno results and a description of the engine.

Dyno results from an engine that never existed in complete, let alone running form? Not bad!

Gentlemen,Though Andover Norton is still in the post-move stage, i.e. some rotary items are in the stores but not located yet, I have asked Phil to provide me with a current price list of stock we know we have.All items we either don't have, or haven't put on the inventory yet, are not included.You ...

Sorry, not the same as ours. The receivership story sounds a bit like a lame excuse. red face They were in receivership for a while last year but we have since received new master cylinders, paid for, incidently, BEFORE they went into receivership which means they honoured the contract under their r...

Gripper,Not sure if we talk the same Grimeca master cylinder, but if it is the one we use in our brake improvement kit (see http://www.andover-norton.co.uk/Accessories.htm), then we have the lever as a spare- Andover Norton part# 13-1610.Joe

I think ZFD is here a bit lieing Though I have heard lots of tall stories from many characters in the Norton game over the last 35 years, and continue to hear more, I know some people who I have yet to catch lying. Two of them are respected contributors on this forum, ex-management of Norton Motors...

Rotor1,Had I sold the name before the bikes I'd not sold the bikes. Therefore, even if the bike (which one? The P39 Oil in Frame surely!) was still there, it may have been. I sold it on the understanding we'd get the various bits I had collected together to a rideable bike for the buyer. Which took ...

Firstly, apologies- the Oil in Frame bike was named "P39", not "P41". "P39" incidently being the same project number as an oil in frame Triumph. red face Astralite wheels the P41 (Cooke Neilsen/Aurora) did not have, they had the cast wheels similar to the IP2 (P42), but...

To the best of my knowledge, there's only one remaining complete example of the pre-production batch and that, surprise surprise, is in a private museum abroad. Yes, I offered it to the National Motorcycle Museum, together with most of the parts to build a P41 (Triumph/BSA Oil in Frame chassis, rot...

Looks like the Tony Denniss bike to me.

There is virtually none of the KD bike in the present machine Kenny Dreer swears the current bike is 1:1 his machine bar the motor management. I can't say whether this is true but suspect he knows what he came up with a decade (!) ago.When we met exactly ten years ago- he was here in November or ea...

The Aquilinis ("Tortellinis")were landed with Norton against their will. Only because they lent Nelson Scalbania ("Scandalia") the money to buy it and he couldn't pay the loan back. After they took it off his hands they were desperate to get rid of it, and/or find some "spon...

I for one didn't then think the NOC should buy a bike, at that time still naiively thinking club fees should be invested in re-manufacturing parts that were not commercially viable to make- like Slimline mudguards etc. Since then that hasn't happened, but the funds were used for many other purposes,...

That Commander in Germany has been advertized constantly and for years in the various mags as well on different internet platforms, and nobody wants it at that price. So Commander owners, this is no price guide, or rather it shows what one can NOT get for a Commander! I suspect the "new" N...

Part# 92-10213- about 50 in stock at Andover Norton I believe.