It's all good, either it will get restored, or it will one day be for sale as it is! Ideally I would like to find a Nomad, or as early a Norton as I could afford. Pre 1950's stuff seem hard to find in the USA.

Surely not a Dominator 77 with a single top tube and single down-tube. I though all the Dominators used either the wide-line or slim-line Featherbed frame.

frankdamp wrote:Surely not a Dominator 77 with a single top tube and single down-tube. I though all the Dominators used either the wide-line or slim-line Featherbed frame.

You thunk wrong then Frank. Dominators first came with plunger and rigid frames - and then with swingarm frames just after the featherbed 88s came out. And the Model 77 and Nomads came in the later 1950s, so the single downtube single top tube frames were around for more than a decade. So that makes 6 different frame types for dominators, only one of them a featherbed - before the slimline arrived.

(And if you count some yearly differences in some of them, that makes quite a few varieties).
(Not to mention tanks, wheels, sidecovers, battery carriers and brakes).
An inventory/stock of all 1950s parts would have been HUGE.

Cheers.

Rohan is correct! About the frames. The model 77 was produced primarily for the sidecar market, Norton said the feathebed would not support a side car so the factory sold the model 77 for that purpose. After Eric Oliver proved everybody wrong by racing a featherbed with a sidecar, the model 77 was droped at the end of 1957.