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For sale by Auction on Saturday 7th July 2018, at Sledmere House, Sledmere, Driffield, YO25 3XG. Commencing at 12 noon.
Registration number 504 YUX (non transferable).
Frame number B1168072.
Engine number 75222.
One of the most charismatic model names in motorcycling history, 'International' was first used by Norton for its top-of-the-range sports roadster in 1932. The Inter's overhead-camshaft engine had been developed in the works racers for the preceding two years, and although it retained the classic 79 x 100 mm bore/ stroke dimensions and shaft-and-bevels cam drive of the existing CS1, was entirely new. Based on the works bikes and intended for racing, the International could nevertheless be ordered with refinements such as lights and a kickstart-equipped gearbox. By the time production halted in 1939 it was being built with a four-speed foot-change 'box and plunger rear suspension (the 'Garden Gate' frame), reappearing after the war in similar guise save for the adoption of the hydraulically-damped Roadholder front fork, which replaced the pre-war girder. The Inter remained fundamentally unchanged until 1953 when it gained the Featherbed frame, all-alloy engine and 'laid down' gearbox.
This post war 'garden gate' Norton features an International engine built into an ES2 frame, with a Manx type bolt through petrol tank, a wrap round competition style oil tank and alloy wheel rims. Nothing is known of its life, first being registered with DVLA in September of 2013 by a William Ireland and MOT'd that year at a mileage of 4, 781; now it is 4, 868. Our vendor bought it from Barry Flintoff in October 2017 as part of a deal with some other machines but has not used it; he fired it up on a rolling road after the cataloguer left.
Sold with the V5C and MOT from 2013.
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