Twin Girling gas units, 3-way adjustable for preload.
Front Brakes
2 x Ø265 mm discs
Rear Brakes
Single Ø265 mm disc
Front Tyre
100/90-18
Rear Tyre
110/80-18
Dry-Weight
235 kg / 518 lbs
Fuel Capacity
23 L / 6.1 US gal
To get back into the Police and
military market, Norton recruited Neale Shilton, Triumphs Police sales
manager, who developed a Police bike against the often considerable
resistance and envy of other members of the Norton management- I recommend
reading Shiltons book "A Million Miles ago".
The minimum outlay for tooling
meant that the fairing was bought in from Avon Fairings. Police safety
regulations demanded the petrol tanks had to be made from metal, not glass
fibre; as all Norton Commando tanks at the time were made from glass fibre,
Shilton used up steel pressings for slimline featherbed petrol tanks,
equipping them with a bottom that fitted the Commando frame. The speedo had
to be accurate, so a "non-pair" of Chronometric speedo and magnetic rev
counter were used. Some petrol tanks had a boxed-in section on top for the
radio equipment of the day; most were fitted with the (terrible) "fits all
but nothing rightly" Craven carriers and panniers, employing 16 half clamps,
30 distance pieces, 6 stays, and general shoddyness as a main design
feature.