The London Motorcycle Show Sale 12th February 2022

48 Motorcycle Sale Saturday 12th February | 2.30 pm local time The London Motorcycle Show Sale 2022 • Copies of Norton factory records held by the VMCC show that engine number ‘25300’ (in frame ‘17486’) was built for the 1925 TT and intended for ‘A Bennett’ • Alec Bennett was Norton’s star rider of the mid-twenties. The engine of the Model 18 offered here incorporates the crankcase of his 1925 Isle of Man TT ‘works’ machine • This Norton’s current frame - ‘22787’ - formed part of an OHV model that left the factory on 23rd March 1926 • On display in the Isle of Man’s Murray Motorcycle Museum for many years • It was carefully restored by him and ridden on the Isle of Man TT Lap of Honour in 1990 • Featured in a lengthy article published in The Classic Motor Cycle, July 1991 • Purchased by our vendor in 2012 and has been part of his private collection ever since LOT 141 Registration: TR 361 Frame Number: 22787 Engine Number: 25300 Estimate: £20,000 - £25,000 1925 Norton 490cc Special Model 18 More Details Lot 141 Bid On Lot 141 Sympathetically restored Model 18 Special with lots of history and some ‘works’ provenance.