Yep thats clive Bennett and Dennis Green in overalls, Norton did not close down bur moved to Plumstead as part of assiciated Motoor Cycles, AJS Matcless, only one employee John Hudson a technical writer went to work ther, so kapput to the old real Bracebridge street Norton.

There are a lot of stories about where the bike reallywent to all of them false , but it lay in the race shop for a long tiime, there was a batch of similasr domiracers about six if I rember but they did not have the same motor, similar yes.

Most of the work on Tom's motor was done by Dennis Poulton a backroom genius who always kept a very low profile, he is one of the few from thos days still alive and lives in Great barr, Birmingham.

The actual special motor from that bie, well only one man Arther Stocker from Brierly Hill new were it went and a few others. That motor was blown to bits at the Manx or Darley Moore and there were none of the trick bits especially for the cylinder head that dennis had made, so it was scrapped.

Under Allan Sugar the boss of AMC the race shop was wound down a production or the Mannx Norton ceased , Funny how stories get mixed up and turn to fantasy, I read on another forum about how some guy met this lovely blue eyed blond , dated her and went to her hom and she turned out to be the daughter of Tom Loughridge, well my late wife and I never had any children.

Sadly Tom Phillis got killed on a 350 works Honda 4 in the Glen Helen area at the TT