Let's just look at the way the original thread was started. Obviously, Dave read Joe's rant in his own newsletter and decided that the NOC were bad people and that Joe was "looking after " Norton owners all over the world and beyond with his pious need to serve Nortonkind. Subsequently, others jumped on the bandwagon, heaping it on the NOC and their committee.
Perhaps he should have titled the thread, "What's going on here"? to perhaps foster a more friendly, even handed discussion regarding the perceived problem. As it stands, it is a very divisive thread, which cannot, in itself, provide a solution to the "problem". It just seems to be a typical, heavy handed, approach to getting what Joe wants.
Look at it from the NOC point of view. The drawings were bought, decades ago, when nobody was really interested, and they saw it as a way to preserve Norton history that would otherwise have ended up as landfill. Another result of the clusterf@#k that was (is?) the British motorcycle industry.
Where does it all end, AN? Gangs of AN thugs knocking on ex-NVT workers doors, demanding the return of that un-numbered set of crankcases that we know you stole from the factory in 1975?
