Andover norton commando

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Non-necessary Non-necessary. This will take a while, but for now the above look up methods should be helpful. Please bear with us. Like Pa Norton, we will keep striving for perfection. We also stock a complete line of factory manuals, after market manuals and Norton Books Return to Old Britts home page.. Our Products, Ordering. But between the first Fastback Commando of and the final electric-start bikes of , the factory built a number of short-run variants that are now highly collectible.

When the Plumstead site was slated for redevelopment, assembly was moved in to a new facility in Andover, Hampshire on the famous Thruxton circuit , while engine manufacture went to the Villiers factory in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. Along with the change in location came an opportunity to tidy up the Commando engine.

Principally, the ignition points were moved from a chain-driven jackshaft behind the cylinders where the magneto had been on the cc Atlas to the end of the camshaft to simplify the design and make the points easier to service.

The tachometer drive, previously taken off the end of the camshaft, moved inboard, with the tach cable now coming off the front of the engine instead of the right side. The more conservative R model was in essence a transition model from the Fastback to the Roadster.

It used up the remaining 20M3 engines, with the side-mounted oil tank and sausage-shaped mufflers from the Fastback, but was fitted with a stylish new fiberglass gas tank and a conventional dual seat. The S, however, made a radical styling statement. Gone were the sensible shrouds and gaiters from the front forks, exposing slender chrome fork tubes with token dust excluders.

Chrome exhaust headers wove around the frame downtubes, exiting on the left and sweeping along the side of the bike, with chrome heat shields adding a finishing touch. Chrome also anointed the fenders, rear damper shrouds, chain guard and seat trim. Gaudy, maybe — but subtle it was not. The R model ended with the final closure of the Plumstead factory in , but the S model lasted into None of the standard reference works carry any photographs, and details are sketchy.

Not for the first time, a British bike maker had misjudged the U. By this time all Commandos were identical from the steering yokes down, different models identified by gas tank, seat, handlebars, exhaust and side panel changes. Swapping parts to make a different model version was easy. The R, S and SS models lasted barely all of that. Parked next to each other, the family resemblance appears strongest between the S and SS, both exhibiting a North American styling influence.

The R styling harks back to Nortons of the early Sixties, the mufflers being identical to the Atlas built during that decade. To browse specific genuine factory spare parts, click a model below.

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