The Clive Wood MBE Collection
1949 Norton 490cc 500T
Registration no. KLL 151 (see text)
Frame no. D3T 20985 (see text)
Engine no. D3T 20985
Late in 1948 Norton announced an entirely new trials model: the 500T. In its original, 'all-iron' engined form the 500T tipped the scales at 320lbs, while the subsequent adoption of an alloy cylinder head and (later) a Wellworthy alloy barrel brought that down to 300lbs. The 500T was introduced as a 1949 model at the 1948 Motor Cycle Show, by which time a young Geoff Duke had already won that year's Allan Jefferies Trial riding a 350cc-engined prototype. Numerous other competition successes throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s confirmed that Norton had produced a machine as good as, if not better than, any other rigid-framed trials iron.

Acquired by the late owner in 1989, this 500T comes with a dating letter from Peter Roydhouse stating that it is one of the first 30 built. The machine was despatched on 13th January 1949 to the dealer 'Daniell', this being the Norton works rider, Harold Daniell, whose shop was in Forest Hill, South London. The 500T's first owner one F Eldridge of nearby Dulwich. The machine is offered for recommissioning or restoration (the engine turns over) and comes with an old-style continuation logbook (1974), an HPI check sheet, and an old V5. It should be noted that the V5 and HPI record the frame number as '21611', which is believed to be an old typographical error ( possibly a casting number).
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This Lot will be auctioned on Sunday 21 April starting at 11am GMT.
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