Commando gear teeth thread.

[Mark]

LAB has provided much necessary and very helpful information and hopefully will continue to do so.

He always does.
And..... he does it without all of the "unnecessary stuff" that everyone else seems to interject into their threads/posts.
Just the facts ma'am, just the facts!

 

[lcrken]

This is the Norton gearbox data I've collected from a variety of sources (including the NOC files) over the years. I haven't found a way to post a spreadsheet here, so I've printed it and scanned it into these jpg pages.

Ken

 

[B.Rad]

hey Gidday Ken

thanks very much for your most informitave post. this will help enormously. I can reach a conclusion and this data really helps to identify any benifets that ended up im the Commando box.

i am trying to sort out my photo posting troubles right at this moment. I think I have overcome my difficulty.
thanks again very much.
Aussie Bradley

 

[kommando]

Anyone know what happened to Burmans, or more precisely their documentaion of the gearbox business.

http://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/sh ... hp?t=19912

Burmans did indeed have a factory at Kings Norton, the main entrance was in Wychall lane which is still there and the houses next to the entrance belonged to Burmans.
Sadly the Burman family sold its interests in the Company and after a few owners it moved to the old arial motercycle works in Grange Road Selly Oak in the 1990's merging with Hi-Ton engineering ltd to form Burman Hi-ton.
In 1996 the Company moved to the old BSA works in Montgommery Street,Sparkhill remaining there until its closure in 2006.
It was a good company to work for and still in touch with some who worked at Wychall lane,one who served his apprenteshipthere and worked for them all his working life!
I still have a printed Burmans box with a set of Hair clippers wrapped up in tissue paper.
Hope the above is of some intrest
John

I went to school just down the road from Burmans in Wychall Lane in the 70's and it was a busy factory.

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Burman_and_Sons

General
1871 Company founded.
1897 Private company.
1930s Gearbox for Ariel Square-four motorcycle. (Exhibit at Birmingham Thinktank museum)
1933 Burman and Sons Limited, manufacturers of horse and barbers' clippers, sheep shearers, motor cycle gear boxes and steering gears, Ryland road, Edgbaston [1]
1953 S. F. Burman, M.B.E., Managing Director, Burman and Sons, Ltd
1955 Acquired by Vono Industrial Products.
1961 Manufacturers of motor and motorcycle accessories. 1,500 employees. [2]
1968 Supplied rack and pinion steering units to Ford [3]
1978 Adwest Group acquired Burman and Sons, the steering gear part of Duport[4].
1986 Major reduction in staffing at Burman due to fall in demand for its products and delivery problems [5].

 

[Bernhard]

These were originally fitted to a 500 Manx Norton in which the AMA rules forbid the close ratio box and high compression engine of the Manx - hence they had to have a kick starter fitted to the Manx g/box( meaning a highly modified 500 Norton international.) the Yanks didn’t like this bike being raced against their beloved H D. The Daytona bike/car race was a sand/beach race originally.