Norton Motorcycle Specifications

500 Model 18	1924
500 Model 18	1930
500 Model 18	1947-54
650SS	1968
Atlas 750	1962-68
C 652 Combat	2000
C 652 SM International	1999
Classic Rotary	1987
Commander Rotary	1989-91
Commander Rotary Police	1990

Commando 750 Fastback	1968-69
Commando 750 Fastback	1970-71
Commando 750 Hi-Rider	1971
Commando 750 Interstate	1972
Commando 750 Roadster	1970-71
Commando 750 Roadster	1972
Commando 750S Scrambler	1969-70
Commando 850	1973
Commando 850	1974
Commando 850 JPS	1974
Commando 850 (electric starter)	1975
Commando 850 Interstate	1975
Commando 850 Roadster	1975
Commando 952	2005
Commando 961Café Racer	2010
Commando 961 Café Racer Special Edition	2010-
Commando 961 Café Racer	2013-14
Commando 961 Café Racer MKII	2015-16
Commando 961 Café Racer MKII "Mick Grant Special" Limited Edition	2016
Commando 961 Café Racer MKII	2017
Commando 961 S.E.	2010-
Commando 961 S.F.	2013-14
Commando 961 S.E. MKII	2015
Commando 961 S.F. MKII	2016
Commando 961 S.F.MKII	2017
Commando 961 Sport	2010
Commando 961 Sport	2013-14
Commando 961 Sport MKII	2015-16
Commando 961 Sport MKII	2017
Commando 961 California 50th anniversary	2018
Commando Interpol 1	1974
Commando Café Racer	2009
Dunstall	1966-75
Dominator 77	1957-58
Dominator 88	1956-62
Dominator 88SS	1961-62
Dominator 99	1956-62
Dominator 99 De Lux	1960-62
Dominator 99SS	1961-62
Dominator 650SS	1962-68
Dominator 961 Concept	2015
Dominator 961SS	2016
Dominator 961 Naked	2017
Domiracer Limited Edition	2014
FI JPS	1989
F2	1992
Featherbed	1950
Kneeler	1953
Interpol 2 Classic	1988
International / 500	1933-36
International Model 30	1955
Mercury	1968-70
Nemesis	1998
P11	1967
Twin	1907
V4 RR & SS	2017

James Lansdown Norton founded the Norton Company in 1898 in the motorcycle manufacturing rich area of Birmingham and produced and supplied parts to bicycle and motorcycle manufacturers. Norton began producing its own motorcycles in 1902 using Clement and Peugeot engines. Norton's were considered 'behind the times', still using belt drive by the dawn of the First World War but improved their technology soon after with a clutch, gearbox and chain drive. Norton had considerable success in racing including taking nine places in the top fourteen in the first Manx TT in 1920 although none of those nine places garnered a win. Norton also boasted wins at Brooklands and many other races in Europe.

Norton was bought by motorcycle giant Associated Motor Cycles (AJS, Matchless, James and Francis-Barnett) in 1953 after it was evident that the company couldn't financially survive despite the success of the featherbed frame used in racing bikes as well as the Dominator in 1952. This take-over was not welcomed news to Norton aficionados.

AMC went into receivership in 1966. Norton was the only motorcycle marque in the company that made money at this point. The new owner called the reformed company Norton-Villiers. A few years would pass only to see financial trouble again. In 1973, the British government's attempt to rescue the motorcycle industry forced a merger of BSA/Triumph and Norton-Villiers in return for funds to remain in business. The resultant company was called was Norton-Villiers-Triumph (NVT). This incarnation of Norton liquidated in 1978 but the new owner kept building rotary engined motorcycles for the next 15 years with some success but few sales until the Norton name as we know it just slowly disappeared.