Introduced at the 1927 Motor Cycle Show, the ES2 sports roadster used the Model 18’s overhead-valve engine in the cradle frame of the overhead-camshaft CS1, and from then onwards the ‘ES2’ designation was always applied to Norton’s top-of-the-range, overhead-valve single. The ES2 was built in several versions during a production run lasting until 1963, though the engine dimensions of 79x100mm bore/stroke - first adopted by James Landsdowne Norton in 1911 - remained unchanged to the end. Post-war developments included the adoption of Roadholder telescopic forks (1947), an alloy cylinder head (1955), alternator electrics (1959) and the slimline version of the race-developed Featherbed frame, introduced on the single-cylinder range for 1961. Production of all of Norton’s traditional singles ended in 1963, though the ‘ES2’ model name lived on until 1966, in its latter years referring to AMC’s Matchless G80, suitably re-badged as a Norton. This matching-numbers Featherbed ES2 was imported into Austria from Czechoslovakia and acquired by the Museum in August 1994. The machine is offered with (copy) Czech registration papers and Austrian customs documents.
Introduced at the 1927 Motor Cycle Show, the ES2 sports roadster used the Model 18’s overhead-valve engine in the cradle frame of the overhead-camshaft CS1, and from then onwards the ‘ES2’ designation was always applied to Norton’s top-of-the-range, overhead-valve single. The ES2 was built in several versions during a production run lasting until 1963, though the engine dimensions of 79x100mm bore/stroke - first adopted by James Landsdowne Norton in 1911 - remained unchanged to the end. Post-war developments included the adoption of Roadholder telescopic forks (1947), an alloy cylinder head (1955), alternator electrics (1959) and the slimline version of the race-developed Featherbed frame, introduced on the single-cylinder range for 1961. Production of all of Norton’s traditional singles ended in 1963, though the ‘ES2’ model name lived on until 1966, in its latter years referring to AMC’s Matchless G80, suitably re-badged as a Norton. This matching-numbers Featherbed ES2 was imported into Austria from Czechoslovakia and acquired by the Museum in August 1994. The machine is offered with (copy) Czech registration papers and Austrian customs documents.
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