trident sam
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Beautiful bikes
Lucky you !
sam
Lucky you !
sam
Ken, your posts make Les look like a saint. Owners got fed up with Les and his attitude, no doubt they are getting fed up with your's.
Can't believe I have wasted the time typing this for you to read.
I am still amazed that you are still allowed to post after calling me and one other assholes.
Well Ken, I did not accuse you of writing bullshit. I said that you frequently tell other people that they are talking bullshit, especially when they are expressing views that are different to your own.
Neither do I recall repetive use of the phrase “well, I’ve never tried it, but I would think....” certainly not enough to make you wealthy at a dollar a time Ken! Although, to be frank, I see nothing wrong in that phrase, it is simply making clear that someone is posting a thought / idea / opinion and that they make clear, up front, that it is not based on first hand experience.
This is still a fallacy that some of you have, reverse-engineering isn't the same as engineering. Would you rather fly in a Boeing B-29 or a Soviet copy?
Always the ideas man.
Beautiful bikes
Lucky you !
sam
The Boeing! But, as I said, making Norton parts is not at quite the same level of precision...Are all the Norton parts currently being supplied for these bikes based on the original drawings? From what I understand, they are not yet they (mostly) fit/function properly.
BASED ON WHAT I HAVE READ IN THIS THREAD, I can see the thinking that "back in the day" these drawings were just going to be thrown away and that the NOC "saved them." I realize I'm no lawyer but it seems to me that does make them theirs. To me it's like I pulled something out of a dumpster before it was emptied and then, years afterward, someone demanded I give that item to them because they later bought the building the trash came from. It would be nice if the parties could just play nice together and work things out but that's not something that seems to readily occur nowadays...
It was not the NOC who saved the drawings but Joe Francis Motors who acquired them in 1966 and as far as is known in good faith . What a mess.
I know the US Navy maintains the ownership of all its stuff even at the bottom of the sea. Always have wondered just how they can do
this but if you raise one of their WW2 airplanes it isnt yours.
Im on the side of the dumpster divers, once in the skip it is yours for the taking as far as I can see.
Legally who the hell knows...
1966 is wrong. There are some early Commando drawings contained, so it was about 1969/1970. These drawings were, in one way or another, "acquired" and saved when Plumstead was subject of a compulsory purchase order. Norton then moved to Andover helped by subsidies from the government, and the Plumstead factory was torn down.
So, if I have understood well ,there was the drawings of a 17th spanish galion , that Sir Francis drake had stolen , but that galion sunk , he was the grand grand father of joe Francis and gave him the precious map of the wreck , the map of the treasure is somewhere now in the hands of the NOC ???? and the Brexit , what will happen with the territorial waters ......?
Now we know why no one toured the Soviet Union on a Norton... fear of reverse engineeringYes it is looking that way, but there is also the Russians in the fake B29.