1934 Norton Model 30 International. Registration number GL 1...

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£10,300

1934 Norton Model 30 International. Registration number GL 1825. Frame number 30-53083. Engine number 58000. Gearbox SN 25073.
Sold with the V5C, Science Museum build sheet, known history since 1978.
The Norton International or Cammy Norton was built between 1931 and 1957. More than a TT replica sports roadster, the OHC Model 30, was 500 cc and the OHC Model 40 was 350 cc. During the 1930s it could be ordered from the Norton factory with all manner of racing parts fitted. Such factory bikes won many Isle of Man TT races during the 1930s, many of them 1-2-3 results.
Norton factory riders on Inters, including Jimmie Guthrie, Jimmy Simpson, Stanley Woods were household names of the era. Production of the Model 30 and 40 International ended temporarily on the outbreak of World War II.
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 bore and stroke of the Norton CS1 the Model 30 International was all new. The racing heritage led to quickly detachable wheels and hairpin type valve springs that could be changed rapidly when racing. In 1933, the forks and gearbox were redesigned and in 1935, the Sturmey-Archer gearbox was replaced, as Sturmey-Archer had stopped making gearboxes, so Norton bought the rights to the design and commissioned Burman to produce them.
Offered from long term ownership, there is a Science Museum certificate from 1990 listing the build sheet, original engine and frame confirmed, the gearbox has been changed at some point in its life. The bike was despatched from the factory on the 12th April to Blays of Twickenham for their client Munson of Fifth Cross Road.
In 1978 it was registered with DVLA by Paul Newsham of Bolton, who sold it to Stanley Thorpe of Blackburn in 1989, in 2008 it was with Miles Robinson of Preston and our vendor bought it from him in 2009. There are MOT's from 1980, and 2000- 2007.
During his custodianship he has paraded it many times, notably at Montlhery and Dijon.
It is fitted with TT crabs, BTH Magneto and semi race tyres. Some 20 years ago the vendor changed the original gearbox to the one on the bike now, and reports that it suits the bike for all of the circuits he has used it on, (this box was used by Norton from late 1934 onwards).
It is only for sale due his advancing years and he believes bikes should be ridden