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Transfers/decals and their positions  (iss 138)

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Introduction:

Advertising a product name is a common practice in the world of production of articles and a such Norton was no exception.

In general the application of the markings indicate manual work as there are many small deviations in position and positioning.

The following transfers are applied to Military Nortons and available on the market with a slight variation in dimensions. (dimensions vary slightly per supplier)
See links page for adresses. Unfortunately none of the available logo's have the same bright "rich gold" version of the original. "Classic Transfers" has the most correct version.
The markings are either waterslide transfers or selfadhesive vinyl decals. 

 
 

Petrol tank  (110 x 35 mm)

 Military Nortons basically had bright "rich gold" logo's on both sides of the petrol tank.
Civilian machines usually had black logo's.
 

Rear mudguard  (65 x 20mm)

 

 

 

  On civilian pre-war machines and upto late war on military machines, the rear mudguard bottom portion decal was gold with black lining and could be read as “Norlon”, being without the small horizontal stripe of the "t" below the curl

A late war example showed a change to “Norton”, identical to the other logo’s. Picture shows the early version on a NOS part (left upper) and the late version (left bottom and enlarged  on right) a spot of accidently removed preservative on a NOS part still overall wrapped in the original cosmoline dipped paper.

 

 
Primary chain case (54 x 36mm) The primary chain case was provided with a Norton logo and referred to the Patent Norton owned on the principle of construction. With some minor change, this patented design was also used on Royal Enfield WD/CO motorcycles and pre war Enfields also wore this logo on their primary chain case. 

Oil tank		 On early military machines (1936 to 1938) there was an oil level indication transfer at the root of the filling neck of the oil tank. This cannot be found on any pictures after 1938.
This same transfer is found on the picture of the civilian coloured motorcycle used in the 1935 MWEE evaluation testing so it may have been a standard application on civilian machines.


 Here some original examples of the logo's used on the military machines giving a position and positioning reference.

 

a 1939/1940 petrol tank Khaki Green no. 3 

A 1944 petrol tank  Olive drab SCC no. 15

Norton rear mudguard end piece Brown SCC no. 2

Primary chain case Olive drab SCC no. 15 and Brown SCC no. 2