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The Team
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Richard Negus, Managing
Director, has a lifetime's experience in the motorcycle industry, mainly
with Norton, including 21 years with rotary engines. Previously, Richard
was Director of Motorcycles, responsible for engineering the Classic,
Commander, F1, F1 Sport, and TT588 machines.
In his time as a Norton draughtsman he also made many of the original
drawings for the Commando and the still-born Norton Cosworth Challenge.
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Peter Morris
We are pleased to announce the
return of a Norton engineer to our Team.
Peter has a wide knowledge of Norton
rotaries, being an important member of the design / development
team that took the Commander and F1 projects through from
concept to production.
You may recognise him from the
smiling group on page 168 of Kris Perkins' book of Norton
Rotaries.
He is an experienced motorcyclist,
racer during the '70s on his own Greeves Silverstone and
Velocettes, and an everyday, all-weather rider on his
CB250RS/Ducati Monster/MZ Scorpion or what is it today, Peter?.
Peter aspires to owning an F1 but
doesn't think his wife is ready to accept yet another
bike in the garage.
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Peter Kirby
Another experienced rotary engineer
re-joined Norton Motors in September 2007.
Peter Kirby has a life-long
association with motorcycles and motorcycle sport, having started
work with BSA at Birmingham and joining NVT Motorcycles (later
Norton Motors 1978 Ltd) in the early days of rotary
development at Shenstone. A skilled fabricator and machinist, he
was a member of the team that produced prototypes culminating in
the well-known 'Cooke Nielsen' Norton Aurora, first of the
Norton rotaries. Later, he set up the Service Department at
Shenstone.
Having been a motocross racer in
earlier days, riding Greeves, BSA & Cheney Victors etc., Peter
now concentrates on Pre '65 classic trials with a long-stroke
BSA C15T modified by himself to 337cc.
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